The story of the hare and the tortise
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Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster .
They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route
and started off the race.
The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time.
Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he'd sit under
a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race. He sat under
the tree and soon fell asleep.
The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ.
The hare woke up
and realized that he'd lost the race.
The moral- "Slow and steady wins the race. This is the version of the
story that we've all grown up with."
THE STORY DOESN'T END HERE
The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did some
soul-searching.
He realized that he'd lost the race only because he had been overconfident,
careless and lax.
If he had not taken things for granted, there's no way the tortoise could have beaten him. So he challenged the tortoise to another race.
The tortoise agreed. This time, the hare went all out and ran without
stopping from start to finish. He won by several miles.
The moral - " Fast and consistent will always beat the slow and steady.
It's good to be slow and steady; but it's better to be fast and reliable."
THE STORY DOESN'T END HERE
The tortoise did some thinking this time, and realized that there's no
way it can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted.
It thought for a while, and then challenged the hare to another race, but
on a slightly different route. The hare agreed. They started off. In keeping
with his self-made commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took off and
ran at top speed until he came to a broad river. The finishing line was a
couple of kilometres on the other side of the river.
The hare sat there
wondering what to do.
In the meantime the tortoise trundled along, got into the river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race.
The moral - "First identify your core competency and then change the
playing field to suit your core competency."
THE STORY STILL HASN'T ENDED
The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty good friends
and they did some thinking together.
Both realized that the last race could
have been run much better So they decided to do the last race again, but to
run as a team this time.
They started off, and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the riverbank. There, the tortoise took over and swam
across with the hare on his back. On the opposite bank, the hare again carried
the tortoise and they reached the finishing line together. They both felt a
greater sense of satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.
Moral of the story: United we stand. -
after which, the Bear found out that jugged hare and tortoise soup made great meals
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The story didn't end there either
It was felt that "united we stand" was ideal and work pretty well for the both of them. but as time goes by, the hare felt that he had did all the dirty job of running and carrying the tortoise throughout the journey and the only job that the tortoise did was to carry him across the river.
The hare decided to abandon the slow tortoise and hire a boatman instead and kept on winning
Moral of the story. : Don't that ideal fool you. people failed when gain, honour and fame are involved
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The story doesn't end there.
Soon all the animals in the animal kingdom were racing against each other.
There was backstabbing, politics, arse screwing, scratching and pawing.
This soon became the story of how the corporate world started and how it is today.
Life sucks.
Now stop reading and posting and get back to work, you douche bags.
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The story doesnt end there either..
Out comes a black penguin. Determine to bring order to this chaos, installed himself as supreme ruler under his benevolent despotism. brought law n order throughout the land.
Then there was stability and prosperity to all. And all the animals race and played, worked and lived in harmony, out of fear of punishment.
The thousand year peace they call it.
Moral of the story, get your act together or someone else will come in and do it for you.
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but.... we were not inoculate to stand united with our peers
you r a winner wen u r No. 1,
No. 2 is just a loser
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Blessed are the losers, for they determine the winners.
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And the story doesnt end there .....cuz Manchester United will regroup and start kicking ass again.
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The story doesn't end here. The Falcon decided to take part in the race and won every time.
Moral of the story, if you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth or equip with wings to fly, you will win.
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Okay
Moral/intention of the story: The story never ends
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and the story doesnt end there...
In the end, the government decided to level the forest to make way for the new residential development and expressway. Most of the animals there were killed though on paper and media, they were reported as relocated to zoos worldwide. Even the old hare's and tortoise's families were not spared.
Moral of the Story : Run so much for what..in the end, still die
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The story doesnt end here.
The hare decided to be cunning and employed a sniper and shot the Falcon down.
Moral of the story:
Get others to do the dirty job
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the story doesn't end there...
one of the animal was a blue hedgehog, and he managed to get a pair of red sneakers. He is still on a quest to defeat the evil doctor robotniks.
moral of the story: blue hedgehog run fast
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so looks like e story dosen't end..
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why they like running so much.....
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Quite nice, I like.
I read about this story in one of my chinese assesment books before.
Those comprehension.
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And the story doesn't end here
Having learned his lesson from the hare, it was said that the tortoise who was abandoned, hired dogs to do all the running or him. He began to believe that if he pays the dogs well and above the market rates, all his dogs will happy and not be corrupted. He began to pay his predigee rates comparable to CEO of multi-nationals.
He thought things were going fine for him until he learned that his predigee dogs will still wagged his tails to anyone who will give them food
Moral of the story : money makes to world go round
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.... and a sow was put in charge of the funds for the races, couldnt manage n loss most of the money, rope in a red hair monkey to take the rap. pay the monkey an apple, but the management didnt know that the monkey was actually a gorilla that dun take peanuts....
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I really marvel at the variations, and the creativity of fellow forumers
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nice like ur story
yeah u rite United We Stand -
Originally posted by skythewood:
the story doesn't end there...
one of the animal was a blue hedgehog, and he managed to get a pair of red sneakers. He is still on a quest to defeat the evil doctor robotniks.
moral of the story: blue hedgehog run fast
Moral of the story: Take bus... -
Once upon a time, 3 friends, a hare, a tortoise and a centipede, were having beer at home when they ran out of beer. All three were too lazy to out and buy some more beer. They decided to draw lots and centipede ended up as the one who has to go to the shop just downstairs to get the beer. After 20 mins, centipede still did not return. Hare and tortoise were getting impatient. Another 10 mins passed and still no sign of centipede. Hare & tortoise decided to go down and look for centipede. When the opened the door, they saw centipede still putting on his shoes!!
Moral of the story: The one with most legs may not be the fastest.
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Once upon a time, chicken had six legs and snake and dragon belongs to the same family that slide to travel. Then when the buddha called for the animals to race. The dragon badly wanted to win the snake as both could slide equally fast. So the dragon secretly approaches his good friend the chicken to borrow 4 legs from it and promised to return the legs to the chicken after the race.
Finally the dragon manage to outrun the snake and won the race. But after the race, the dragon refused to return the legs to the chicken. So that's hy chickn is lft only with 2 legs.
Moral of the story? You have been short change. You sould have 6 chicken dumping instead of 2
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so many versions. end liao finally?