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• But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.

  Banksy

  Artist, Self, Views

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• Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

  Mal Fletcher

  Wrinkles, Survival, Worn

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• Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Race, Clothes

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1948). “Mark Twain at your fingertips”

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• Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.

  Eoin Colfer

  Eight, Wanted

  Eoin Colfer (2007). “Half Moon Investigations”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  Wayne Rooney

  Coaching, One Day, Managers

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• To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Killing, Satyagraha, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Men, Overcoming

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• Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Encouraging, Courage, Failure

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• Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

  Charles Ives

  Awards, Mediocrity

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• Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

  Terry Pratchett

  Worst Nightmares, Librarian, Nightmare

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• Stress is not...a badge of courage

  Kris Carr

  Stress

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• Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Thinking, Talking, Ideas

  "The Majority Report with Janeane Garofalo", June 3, 2005.

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• One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

  Seth Godin

  Honor, Criticism, Ruins

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.47, Penguin

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• Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror that bonds us ever tighter to all those who have partaken. The intensity of the experience helps to widen the gulf between us and those who have not shared.

  Clive Barker

  Pain, Taken, Important

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• This is the sheriff you’re talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there.

  Joe Arpaio

  Gun, Talking, Law

  "Does Russell Pearce recall portend a new Arizona?" by Stephen Ceasar, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 9, 2011.

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• There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.

  John Quincy Adams

  Party, Passion, Sacrifice

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• With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us comparing prices in virtually every market, it is natural to turn budget management into a skill, an accomplishment, a badge of lifestyle success.

  Joe Staton

  Business, Skills, Accomplishment

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• The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.

  John Connolly

  Pain, Grief, Loss

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• Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.

  Roald Dahl

  Art, Perfection, Risk

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• This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

  Dan Quayle

  Media, Honor, Scorn

  Speech to the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis, June 09, 1992.

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• Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Mom, Long Ago, Honor

  Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Order, Doe

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• I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

  William McKinley

  Country, Money, Inspiration

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• People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Dignity, Genuine

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.41, A&C Black

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• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Summer, Memories

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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