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

James Rayner
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May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

Jonathan Carroll
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My giant tortoise now weighs 100 pounds, eats 50 pounds of hay a week and goes to the toilet like a horse.

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

Mariella Smith
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It comes in about 50 different colors now. Blond tortoise with a moss-green inlay; dark mahogany; red; yellow. Very upbeat. Every shape, every size, everything goes.

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

Tim Reid
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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.

Ambrose Bierce
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We started off intending to do a four-song EP with Will, with the idea that they'd all be cover songs. We did four songs in four days, which is pretty much the quickest Tortoise has ever done anything. It was such a pleasant experience and so much fun, and the results were really great. So we thought we should do some more.

Doug Mccombs
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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.

Stuart Witt
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PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. 'Persevere, persevere!' cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl. 'Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is -- where?' Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peac.

Ambrose Bierce
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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.

Chuck O'donnell
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It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

Anita Brookner
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