"Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous."
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"When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more."
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"The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it."
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"Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see."
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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."
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"If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else."
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"For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been."
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"I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do."
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"Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out."
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"Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!"
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"It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches."
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"Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this"
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"I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation."
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"I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing."
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