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• Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

  George Sand

  Life Is, Sin, Repentance

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• I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Meaningful, Lying, Believe

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• [On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Country, Europe, Netherlands

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• The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Past, Mind, Weakness

  Wyndham Lewis (1914). “Blast”, Kraus Reprint Corp.

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• There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

  Bono

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.

  Vir Das

  People, Weight, Care

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• He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

  Stephen King

  Water, Mouths, Body

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.857, Anchor

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• You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

  Cornelia Funke

  Morning, Real, Writing

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• You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Tiny is like some gigantic sponge soaking up the pain of lost love everywhere he goes.

  John Green

  Pain, Lost Love, People

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.81, Penguin

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• Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  School, Loss, Tears

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1131, Delphi Classics

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• I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.

  William Shakespeare

  Married, Being Married

  "Shakespeare on Temperance: With Brief Annotations".

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• God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sleep, Night, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.274

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• This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude, Grateful, Wine

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1152, Delphi Classics

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• I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

  Jeremy Northam

  Thinking

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• From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

  Steven Spielberg

  Parent, Mind, Important

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• American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dirty, American English

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated him. Joe had the heart of a lion but verbally he was out of his depth when Ali got going. One time, as fight day approached, Ali spotted Frazier on a hotel balcony, grabbed a security guard's gun and fired some rounds at him. Everybody knew it wasn't live ammo but it still startled the hell out of Joe.] Go back in your hole, Gorilla, You gonna scare the people! Come out again and I'm gonna kill ya before time!”

  Muhammad Ali

  Heart, Fighting, Gun

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• I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

  Thomas A. Edison

  Names, Ideas, Trying

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• Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Jobs, Cameras, Different

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• For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a hallway, or in a chat room on the Internet. Brands are sponges for content, for images, for fleeting feelings. They become psychological concepts held in the minds of the public, where they may stay forever. As such you can’t entirely control a brand. At best you can only guide and influence it.

  Scott Bedbury

  Forever, Feelings, Mind

  Scott Bedbury, Stephen Fenichell (2003). “A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the Twenty-First Century”, p.39, Penguin

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• I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

  Martha Stewart

  Eye, Learning, Opportunity

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Years, Age

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• Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Men, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.117

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• A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Religious, Exercise

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

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• Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

  John Milton

  Children, Reading, Book

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides

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