Granite

Decorative Granite

Granite Falls

Anybody want some granite?

You've honed those talents most skillfully.

It's the erosion of granite rock.

There's nothing beneath this cement but granite.

That we've honed in on the construct, verbal ability.

If those mountains are granite we'd be safe.

They are furiously applying for credit, and this is honed in his name.

Let's do several more of these, just to really get well honed this skill.

The dictionary is not carved out of a piece of granite, out of a lump of rock.

The big dollar sign is made out of granite, to show you that it can never fail.

It went into these granite countertops and these hardwood floors and the vacation the vacation is pure consumption.

So, what'd you do with the upstairs bathroom? New tiles in the bathrooms and kitchens granite countertops, new appliances.

And if you look at sort of the evolution of where the apps have evolved to they've really honed in on a few key experiences.

But let's say, I still have a 100,000 and I use that 100,000 I'll do it in yellow to put in some granite counter tops.

In this dramatically expanded ideal of a liberal arts education where the continuum of thought and action is its life's blood, knowledge honed outside the academy becomes essential.

So unfortunately, a lot of that 500,000 it gets quote unquote invested in granite countertops, two more bathrooms per house, hardwood floors, and you can imagine.

And Homo sapiens are one small leaf on a very extensive Tree of Life, which is densely populated by organisms that have been honed for survival over millions of years.

When you add granite, or you add an extra bathroom or hardwood floors or this extra 2,000 square feet, is it making anyone who's living in that house more productive?

Unencumbered by clinical responsibilities, unwilling to take no for an answer from those bureaucracies that tend to crush patients, and with an unparalleled ability for information retrieval honed through years of using Google.

Things like wood floors and the two more bathrooms and the granite countertops, there is some value there, but that value is definitely not equivalent to the amount of money that was spent on them.

So you're just somehow assuming that the granite counter tops that you choose are going to be the taste that someone else would like or that the hardwood floors are going to be the taste someone else would like.

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy.

Resources that could have built factories, could have built schools, could have built roads, whatever, ended up building granite countertops and sending people on vacation and making them feel good to go start shopping at Williams Sonoma or Neiman Marcus or whatever.