Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.
Isak Dinesen
It will be a fun show, as well as a good thing for our athletes to have people cheering them on from the stands. It usually includes fireworks, entertainment and the law enforcement torch run. We invite the public to come and just watch Friday and Saturday.
Sally Paine
By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation.
Carl Lewis
And then here come the Janjaweed on camel or on horseback, ... They come rolling into the town, shooting and torching the village, often bringing women to the side and raping women indiscriminately. And in order to ensure that the destruction is complete, the government either sends ground forces to oversee the operation, or the attack helicopters, which often are the most deadly things.
John Prendergast
These are galvanized, steel poles and they're filled with a solid resin that prevents them from being cut from a cutting torch.
Agent Michael Gramley
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 that it is the first.
Ambrose Bierce
If you don't have the money, you have to be willing to do the work, ... Try to free yourself up to do the sales, because no one's going to carry the torch like the original founder.
Chris Reed
We wanted to win Metro to continue our legacy. It's keeping the tradition going that was passed on from (former players) Jamal (Crawford), Rod (Stewart), D. Hudson and David King. It's all about passing the torch and keeping it going.
Bryan Anderson
Our community needs hope. Our student-athletes represent hope for them. They will carry the torch and be the face, and display the name of Tulane University and the New Orleans community until we are able to come home and do that on our own campus.
Rick Dickson
One of our biggest risks is to hand over our brand name to a company or owner and hope they carry the torch, ... Our customers look at us as a chain ? as if we had complete control of hiring, firing and standards ? all things that make a brand. (Superior Air) was an easy fit in that their attitudes, beliefs system and values are equal to what we believe.
Sandy Nelson
It's more like a relay race and the torch is now passed to Atlantis and the STS-121 crew, ... Now we have some data to work with, and for the first time in the shuttle era, we've got a very solid place to start.
William Readdy
I think it means the world to Brian. Adam would be honored to pass the torch to Brian.
Michael Starke
If anything, it was, 'Are you sure you want to do this?' ... I think the fans are the ones who expect more. But a lot of time they're also saying, 'We're so glad you guys are carrying the torch.'
Jeff Hanna
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
For a homeowner like myself, it's not necessary. I've got a safe. That's my smart gun technology. My wife knows the combination. None of my kids do and to date, none of them know how to use a welding torch, so I don't think they're going to get in there.
Paul Jannuzzo
From the holocausts of the day he lights his own flaming torch. It illuminates what we are, what we have wrought, what we must renounce.
Harold Clurman
[He said he feels privileged to carry the Segovia torch.] I have such great admiration for him, ... He once told me, 'The pursuit of excellence requires hard work and discipline, over and above success,' and I try to emphasize this with my students at Pepperdine.
Christopher Parkening
You don't have crowning and torching in the trees, ... You don't have near as much ground fire, you can see more of your hot spots, you can see deeper in the fire, you can do more probing, more digging.
Russell Harris
Our job is just to pass the torch onto you.
Forrest Hill
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
I felt I was passing the torch from one generation to the next.
Sherry Phelps
I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my elbow. I guess that was the passing of the torch.
Justin Arthur
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
It's more like a relay race and the torch is now passed to Atlantis and the STS-121 crew. Now we have some data to work with, and for the first time in the shuttle era, we've got a very solid place to start.
William Readdy
I've been on the council for 10 years. I think it's time to pass the torch on to someone else.
Ted Wilson
Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York - the greatest city in the world.
P. Diddy, Puff Daddy
Yvan carried the torch so high, he brought it even higher than I did. I never expected this to happen for me, but I'm really honored.
Dickie Moore
Paul has always held a torch for her. He tries desperately hard not to act on his feelings.
Lloyd Owen
(Lee is) a joyful raconteur, a woman with grit, grace and humor. Lee is the desert's lover. Her voice is a torch in the wilderness.
Terry Tempest Williams
I wish we had a little torch that we could pass around in the locker room. When you hold it, it's your night.
Chelsi Welch
I am confident that the passing of the torch from Chairman Greenspan to his successor will be smooth and seamless.
Anthony Santomero
We had two members who wanted to retire to director emeritus status. After six years, I think they were ready to pass the torch on.
Nelson Driver
It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket.
Frank Deford
The message we want to give them with the torch relay. ... we get that message back in our face. It's very dangerous.
Gilbert Felli
I speak the truth. I've learned when to say it and when not. I've tried to carry the torch that Dale [ Earnhardt ] left behind and tried to be a good representative with all the rest of the drivers.
Rusty Wallace
We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
John Mahoney
(My children) need to pick up the torch and keep on moving.
Sarah Price
She definitely was a civil rights leader and continued to carry the torch.
Michael Bowie
We're very proud of our tradition. I had 20 to 30 former players call encouraging us to carry on the torch. I let our kids know the opportunity at hand to make so many people proud.
Dave Thorson
Hundreds of civilians have fled the fighting and the militiamen have been torching houses as they disperse.
Michel Bonnardeaux
They, in their own way, continued to carry the torch that Martin Luther King did.
Anthony Jones
It's done. Our days are over and we've got to pass the torch on to somebody. We pass it on to Dallas Baker and Brandon Siler or Earl (Everett), Marcus Thomas, Chris (Leak) and all those guys. It's that time. I feel like we're giving it to good hands.
Beverly Degory
Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.
William Hamilton
The Torch Drive is one of the key activities that gets individuals to come together to generate resources and strengthen community response on pressing social issues.
Michael Brennan
John loved this community and he loved the people he wrote about. In his eyes and in his heart, he viewed all the kids he covered as 'his kids.' He was a great talent, but an even better person. Through the Daily Light John Hicks Memorial Scholarship, we can help John pass the torch that he carried so well.
Neal White
We decided, in dedication of the Olympics, to ski down the hill with a torch and the American flag. Then we added three states around us, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We added some of the instructors.
Tony Paterno
We were discussing Coretta Scott King [who died in January] and how we as individuals should be picking up the torch, and also how we should recognize people's contributions while they're here. These are people who are continuing to serve the community and keeping the dream alive.
Eva Mcleod
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand/ A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/ Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name/ Mother of exiles.
Emma Lazarus
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