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• Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

  Mahmud Tarzi

  Dark, Europe, Islam

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• To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.

  Phyllis Diller

  Blow, Apples, Use

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• May you find the courage to walk your own path. May you dare to venture into the uncharted domains of your own heart. Here is my advice to you, the adventurers - fear will show you the way; walk steadily toward it, for otherwise you will always be running. Have trust & faith to guide you like a torch piercing the darkness. Do not believe & do not deny, but find out for yourself - for there is no truth but the one you have earned in your own experience.

  Yossi Ghinsberg

  Running, Believe, Heart

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• Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

  Stephen Hawking

  Discovery, Quests, Scientist

  "The Grand Design". Book by Leonard Mlodinow and Stephen Hawking, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

  Joan Jett

  Jobs, Feels

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• We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

  Christopher Hitchens

  History, Legacy, Unbreakable

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

  Rosanne Cash

  Honorable, Profession, Songwriters

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

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• Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Truth, Shining, Shock

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• I believe that Fairport, in all its incarnations, has almost single-handedly been responsible for and has written the book on the history of the evolution of folk-rock in the UK. Over the years Ashley Hutchings, with his Albion Bands and Richard through his solo work have carried the torch to another level.

  Iain Matthews

  Believe, Book, Rocks

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• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Giving Up, Commitment

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• Judge not that ye be judged; we carried the torch to the goal.
  The goal is won: guard the fire: it is yours: but remember our soul.
  Breathes through the life that we saved, when our lives went out in the night:
  Your body is woven of ours: see that the torch is alight.

  Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

  Night, Fire, Goal

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• Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.

  African Spir

  Appreciate, Risk, Too Much

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Eye, Trying

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• If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Way, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.

  N.D. Wilson

  Fighting, Men, Battle

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

  Amrita Pritam

  Fire, Flames, Wife

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• Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Light, Suffering, Readiness

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• Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice in unbroken chain all the way down to the present. That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light up the world.

  Donald Trump

  Light, Hands, Justice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths, sacred groves of pink anime dryads, Victorian fairy paintings executed by gentlemen in lunatic asylums and so on.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Song, Anime, Men

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Lit

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• One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.

  Laura Mullen

  Song, Effort, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available and, in some cases, the only place where there was enough light to see anything. Even then, it was often so dark that I couldn't tell which gender my subject was (not that I particularly cared) and too dark, before the era of autofocus, to focus. I had to find a light (or carry a torch) and pre-focus.

  Derek Ridgers

  Book, Taken, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.

  Rajneesh

  Darkness, Burning, Consciousness

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• There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.

  Keith Olbermann

  Regret, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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