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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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• In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Song, Character, Color

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• But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Song, Play, Ideas

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• It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Crowds, Beard, Impossible

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 4, 1799.

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• He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

  Jose Marti

  Pairs, Stoops, Could Have Been

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become our parents and grandparents, that we need to hold the torch of what makes the world run and what makes communities better.

  Rhymefest

  Running, Rapper, Grandparent

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Patriotism, Ambitious

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

  Erma Bombeck

  Taken, Memorable, Fighting

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• His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

  Margaret Weis

  Dark, Love For Her, His Love

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Dragons of a Fallen Sun: War of Souls Trilogy, Volume One”, p.34, Wizards of the Coast

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  If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

  Harriet Tubman

  Dog, Want, Woods

  "It is Important to Have Black Faces on Dollars, but More Important to Get Dollars in Black Hands" by Dedrick Muhammad, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2016.

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• He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Fire, Light

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “In the Skin of a Lion”, p.151, Vintage

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• Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Gay, Rights, Today

  Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961, in Vital Speeches 1 Feb. 1961, p. 226

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• The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Years, People

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• Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Fire, Flames

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• As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Player, Years

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• Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Air, Hands, Fire

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.80, A&C Black

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• After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Autumn, Jewels, Color

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• Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

  Lucretius

  Grandma, Space, Grandpa

  "De rerum natura".

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