That is, of course, the punch line to the Aesop fable about the slow, compact tortoise and the sleek, swifter hare.

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Named after the Aesop fable in which the sun persuades a man to take off his coat after the North Wind fails to do so, the policy sought to engage the North.

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One such study, conducted by Sarah Werning of the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues, is reminiscent of Aesop's fable about the hare and the tortoise with dinosaurs playing the role of the cocky lagomorph and crocodiles that of the slow but steady chelonian.

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Simply put, kindness tends to return to those who do kind deeds, as Aesop demonstrated in his colorful fable of a little mouse cutting the net to free the big lion.

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