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#snail

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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.


Wole Soyinka


#bottom #dips #eat #hand #into

It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed the dental profession.


Elisabeth Tova Bailey


#dentistry #snails #tooth #nature

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.


Annie Dillard


#metaphor #science #sea-lion #snail #systems-analyst

I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.


Steve Burns


#congratulations #episode #every #gotta #i

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.


Ivan Turgenev


#does #even #flies #happiest #like

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.


Joseph Gordon-Levitt


#basic #cultures #dna #find #galaxy

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.


Diane Lane


#anything #arrive #breath #hands #i

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.


Iris Murdoch


#pace #philosophy #snail #you

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.


Charles Spurgeon


#perseverance #reached #snail

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.


Harriet Beecher Stowe


#builds #children #does #easily #england






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