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• The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte
• Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what… — Thomas Huxley
• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men. — Victor LaValle
• No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never,… — Miley Cyrus
• The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams… — Carl Sagan
• Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you… — Khalil Gibran
• A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a… — Trevor Baylis
• What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder. — Art Blakey
• It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of… — Scott Simon
• God's mill grinds slow, but sure. — George Herbert
• We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt. — Jan Peter Balkenende

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