"The world is a grindstone and life is…" — Fred Allen

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• So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if… — Benjamin Franklin
• Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
• Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise. — Eiji Yoshikawa
• Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up. — Zig Ziglar
• One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and… — Maurice Sendak
• First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether… — Zig Ziglar
• A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. — Benjamin Franklin
• If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don’t have any nose, — Les Wexner
• The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose… — Robert Reich
• It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our… — Chris Hadfield
• When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two,… — Ben Schwartz
• In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to… — Ernest Hemingway

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