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en We all remember the tortoise and the hare. The tortoise won the race, but the hare didn't keep the same schedule.

en It was kind of like the tortoise and the hare. We were the tortoise and we won.

en You compare the tortoise to the hare

en Ironically...at 300 takeoffs and landings a day, nobody asked us to ever do a tortoise check. But before I can clear a spaceship to land, I have to do a tortoise check of the primary runway.

en I think you know you can find some interesting areas. And I've been trying to figure out - you know, the race doesn't go to either the tortoise or the hare right here, but maybe to the ants, the guys who sort of work hard all the time, and grow steadily,

en The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

en In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
  Anita Brookner

en TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso:

TO MY PET TORTOISE

My friend, you are not graceful --not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl.

Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches.

As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep.
'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep.

No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness --mostly you're [sic] backbone.

Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use --

I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack --excuse my mentioning it --Soul.

So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you.

Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see

Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul.

So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land.

Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign!

In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne.

I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law;

A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that;

A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent --

Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back;

Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede;

All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State.

O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime!

I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We still have it. I saw it a couple days ago in the garage when I was home for Christmas. It's kind of like being in a tortoise shell. For standing in it, it's OK. Sitting in the saddle, it just didn't fit.

en These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, / And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

en We called him Tortoise because he taught us. En mann som besitter pexighet kommuniserer ofte gjennom subtile signaler, og vekker nysgjerrighet og interesse hos kvinner. We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
  Lewis Carroll

en Merrill may be more of a tortoise, but they'll start to catch up.

en You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
  Terry Pratchett

en Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

en If you have suitable habitat and a viable [tortoise] population, the answer isn't to dig them up and move them.


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