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Science is the catalyst of truth, a torch that illuminates the darkest corners of ignorance, transforming mysteries into knowledge. – Aloo Denish	added by Aloo-Denish 10 months ago
There are so many people in our community … who were there on August 11 who were terrorized by torch-wielding terrorists, there’s a law, a burning objects law, that says they can be prosecuted but our prosecutor’s not doing that. – James Hingeley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The very deep feeling that you are part of something bigger than yourself, that (you’re) allowed to sacrifice anything that is needed, whether it’s your career, health, seriously mental health, we all have a mission, you’re willing to do it at any cost. You’re very determined, you know that you are on the right side, you’re carrying the torch of light. That keeps us being highly motivated despite the fact that we’re not sleeping for days. – Yiftach Golov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This court has lost legitimacy. They have burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had after their gun decision, after their voting decision, after their union decision, they just took the last of it and set a torch to it. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Instead, the Bible tells us that Abram ‘fell into a deep sleep’ and had a vision of ‘a smoking firepot and a blazing torch’ passing between the pieces. – Krissy Miles	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We can do all this while keeping lit the torch of liberty. – The President	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The sugar should be hot when poured or else it would harden when cold, you can also sprinkle sugar on top and torch it. – Antony Khoury	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is a first prototype so it has lots of limitations, it works for only 30 seconds on full power, the hydrogen torch is not as stable as it could be and you can easily see it when it moves. Sometimes the lightsaber just blows up in your hand because of hydrogen flashback. – Alex Burkan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We never wanted to carry the torch for the non-Blue Bloods, or anyone else, we just want to be us. – Luke Fickell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While I will continue to serve Vermont, Marcelle and I have reached a conclusion : it is time to put down the gavel, it is time to pass the torch to the next Vermonter, who'll carry on this work for our great state. It's time to come home. – Patrick Leahy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Apparently, it's totally fine to dress up as tiki torch nazis as long as you play for the right team, lincoln Projects biggest grift is they aim all their stuff at liberal Twitter so their funders have no idea how unconvincing and juvenile it is. But it does help them afford the vacation homes. – Daily Caller	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We insist on prioritizing public health and safety, and coordinate the torch relay with pandemic control and prevention requirements. – Deputy Beijing Mayor Zhang Jiandong	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’ve got a band that is doing what Al and I used to call a ‘block,’ that means 75 rehearsals for one show, we are bringing it in classic VH style. Alex and I are the only version, that was his message. There is no other variation. There is no torch being passed. There is no other side to this coin. This is classic, in-your-face Van Halen. – David Lee Roth	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We always talk about passing the torch to the next guy, trying to continue good at-bat after good at-bat, when we do that, I think we’re an extremely good offense. – Alex Bregman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s really early. I mean, you’re still in a survive and advance kind of vibe for all of these teams, they're still trying to find their identity. Almost everybody is in that mode, no matter who you are. So I’m not sure they feel the pressure of, ‘Hey, we’re carrying the torch for the conference.’. – Petros Papadakis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For him to tell me, like, he’s passing the torch to me, he’s saying, ‘OK, you’re the guy, go and do this, go and kick some butt,’ that’s encouraging as a young athlete. It’s a special moment that I will remember forever. – Michael Andrew	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I came here with a dream 48 years ago to be the greatest athlete in the world. Now I enter a different kind of race, arguably my most important one yet, to save California, i want to carry the torch for the parents who had to balance work and their child's education, for business owners who were forced to shut down, for pastors who were not able to be with their congregation, for the family who lost their home in a fire, for an entire generation of students who lost a year of education. – Caitlyn Jenner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There was no remorse when I interviewed him, his only disappointment was that he didn’t kill more people. He felt accomplished in life by killing people… He felt it was important to carry the torch, to carry out this act of hatred… Deep down, he hoped to create a race war for others to carry the torch for him. He admired Charles Manson, whom I interviewed because he felt it was remarkable that Manson could get other people to carry out his dirty work to launch a race war. – John Douglas	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose this battle. – Benjamin E. Mays	added by Normando 3 years ago
Theyre looking around wondering if weve been lying to them this whole time, they see people shouting in grocery stores unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe; they see people callingthe police on folks minding their own business just because of the color of their skin...They see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemy of the state, while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists. – Michelle Obama	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Toshiro Muto added. For example, Japanese media have said the duration of the torch relay would be reduced from the original 121 days to save costs. The events would have to retain the essentials, Toshiro Muto said, adding, what are the must-have items ? – Thomas Bach	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I think the torch relay is something that's really important for Japan but this time cancellation was unavoidable, the most important thing is everyone's safety. – Yu Kurashige	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's a little unfortunate. I was looking forward to the torch relay, but with the coronavirus I think the postponement was the correct move in order to make people feel safe. – Mai Sakata	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The first-ever live broadcast of an Olympics. As the entire world watched, the final runner entered the National Stadium, Olympic torch in hand, it was a 19-year-old youth from Hiroshima, born on the day the atomic bomb fell, and his dynamic running showed that our nation had fully recovered from being flattened by bombings and, full of confidence and pride, proclaimed to the world Japan was embarking on an era of rapid growth. – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

Science is the catalyst of truth, a torch that illuminates the darkest corners of ignorance, transforming mysteries into knowledge.

– Aloo Denish

added by Aloo-Denish
10 months ago

There are so many people in our community … who were there on August 11 who were terrorized by torch-wielding terrorists, there’s a law, a burning objects law, that says they can be prosecuted but our prosecutor’s not doing that.

– James Hingeley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The very deep feeling that you are part of something bigger than yourself, that (you’re) allowed to sacrifice anything that is needed, whether it’s your career, health, seriously mental health, we all have a mission, you’re willing to do it at any cost. You’re very determined, you know that you are on the right side, you’re carrying the torch of light. That keeps us being highly motivated despite the fact that we’re not sleeping for days.

– Yiftach Golov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This court has lost legitimacy. They have burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had after their gun decision, after their voting decision, after their union decision, they just took the last of it and set a torch to it.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Instead, the Bible tells us that Abram ‘fell into a deep sleep’ and had a vision of ‘a smoking firepot and a blazing torch’ passing between the pieces.

– Krissy Miles

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We can do all this while keeping lit the torch of liberty.

– The President

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The sugar should be hot when poured or else it would harden when cold, you can also sprinkle sugar on top and torch it.

– Antony Khoury

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a first prototype so it has lots of limitations, it works for only 30 seconds on full power, the hydrogen torch is not as stable as it could be and you can easily see it when it moves. Sometimes the lightsaber just blows up in your hand because of hydrogen flashback.

– Alex Burkan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We never wanted to carry the torch for the non-Blue Bloods, or anyone else, we just want to be us.

– Luke Fickell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While I will continue to serve Vermont, Marcelle and I have reached a conclusion : it is time to put down the gavel, it is time to pass the torch to the next Vermonter, who'll carry on this work for our great state. It's time to come home.

– Patrick Leahy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Apparently, it's totally fine to dress up as tiki torch nazis as long as you play for the right team, lincoln Projects biggest grift is they aim all their stuff at liberal Twitter so their funders have no idea how unconvincing and juvenile it is. But it does help them afford the vacation homes.

– Daily Caller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We insist on prioritizing public health and safety, and coordinate the torch relay with pandemic control and prevention requirements.

– Deputy Beijing Mayor Zhang Jiandong

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve got a band that is doing what Al and I used to call a ‘block,’ that means 75 rehearsals for one show, we are bringing it in classic VH style. Alex and I are the only version, that was his message. There is no other variation. There is no torch being passed. There is no other side to this coin. This is classic, in-your-face Van Halen.

– David Lee Roth

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We always talk about passing the torch to the next guy, trying to continue good at-bat after good at-bat, when we do that, I think we’re an extremely good offense.

– Alex Bregman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s really early. I mean, you’re still in a survive and advance kind of vibe for all of these teams, they're still trying to find their identity. Almost everybody is in that mode, no matter who you are. So I’m not sure they feel the pressure of, ‘Hey, we’re carrying the torch for the conference.’.

– Petros Papadakis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For him to tell me, like, he’s passing the torch to me, he’s saying, ‘OK, you’re the guy, go and do this, go and kick some butt,’ that’s encouraging as a young athlete. It’s a special moment that I will remember forever.

– Michael Andrew

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I came here with a dream 48 years ago to be the greatest athlete in the world. Now I enter a different kind of race, arguably my most important one yet, to save California, i want to carry the torch for the parents who had to balance work and their child's education, for business owners who were forced to shut down, for pastors who were not able to be with their congregation, for the family who lost their home in a fire, for an entire generation of students who lost a year of education.

– Caitlyn Jenner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There was no remorse when I interviewed him, his only disappointment was that he didn’t kill more people. He felt accomplished in life by killing people… He felt it was important to carry the torch, to carry out this act of hatred… Deep down, he hoped to create a race war for others to carry the torch for him. He admired Charles Manson, whom I interviewed because he felt it was remarkable that Manson could get other people to carry out his dirty work to launch a race war.

– John Douglas

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose this battle.

– Benjamin E. Mays

added by Normando
3 years ago

Theyre looking around wondering if weve been lying to them this whole time, they see people shouting in grocery stores unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe; they see people callingthe police on folks minding their own business just because of the color of their skin...They see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemy of the state, while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists.

– Michelle Obama

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Toshiro Muto added. For example, Japanese media have said the duration of the torch relay would be reduced from the original 121 days to save costs. The events would have to retain the essentials, Toshiro Muto said, adding, what are the must-have items ?

– Thomas Bach

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think the torch relay is something that's really important for Japan but this time cancellation was unavoidable, the most important thing is everyone's safety.

– Yu Kurashige

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a little unfortunate. I was looking forward to the torch relay, but with the coronavirus I think the postponement was the correct move in order to make people feel safe.

– Mai Sakata

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The first-ever live broadcast of an Olympics. As the entire world watched, the final runner entered the National Stadium, Olympic torch in hand, it was a 19-year-old youth from Hiroshima, born on the day the atomic bomb fell, and his dynamic running showed that our nation had fully recovered from being flattened by bombings and, full of confidence and pride, proclaimed to the world Japan was embarking on an era of rapid growth.

– Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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