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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.

  John Pilger

  Jobs, Rocks, Peers

  John Pilger (2011). “Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs”, p.15, Random House

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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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• Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out for what they are, wearing badges. Twitter is like the new Scarlet Letter.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Character, Calling, Letters

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.

  Lance Armstrong

  Gun, Thinking, Doors

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• The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

  Camille Paglia

  Doors, Identity, Next

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• I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.

  Mark Leibovich

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Responsibility, Men, Class

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• Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

  Gina Barreca

  Attendance, Rewards

  Gina Barreca (2016). “"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

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• You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.

  Richard Hammond

  Cat, Bmw, People

  "Top Gear" with Richard Hammond, November 24, 2002.

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• Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

  Pierre Charron

  Humble, Gay, Men

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• A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Intelligent, Men, Miracle

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.875, Library of Alexandria

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• It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times.

  William Prynne

  Girl, Play, Theatre

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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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• All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Sex, Pride, Class

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications

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• Stress is not...a badge of courage

  Kris Carr

  Stress

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