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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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• 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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• Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Paper, Needs

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

  Matthew Henry

  Love Is, Brotherly Love, Christ

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.639

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• I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.

  Simon Munnery

  Glasses, Intellect

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• Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Love Is, Brotherly Love

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• The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Opportunity, Swings

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• The hats are tough. I've got a weird head, so believe me, there were a lot of hats. Penny [Rose], our costume designer, who I knew from other jobs said, "Badge, that looks terrible on you. Hold on. No, we can't do that one."

  James Badge Dale

  Jobs, Believe, Rose

  Source: collider.com

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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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• How are people who are young and look like Oscar [Grant] portrayed in the media? You gotta think about that. And somebody given a badge and a gun and told to go police in those communities, all of a sudden they got to protect and serve and talk to people they never even spent time with [and] they might have formed opinions about.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Thinking, Gun, Protect And Serve

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Fashion, Strong, Character

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.16, Hackett Publishing

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• Don't get me started on the little airplane name badges," Natalie grumbled.

  Peter Lerangis

  Airplane, Names, Littles

  Peter Lerangis (2011). “The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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• They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Depression, Loneliness, Guy

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• We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.

  John Marsden

  Teacher, Kids, Hands

  John Marsden (1999). “Darkness Be My Friend”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

  Al Gini

  Order, Luxury, Rights

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• As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

  David Mitchell

  Ethnicity, Long, Interesting

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• As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, Who is the Lord above all lords, would have His servants known their badge, which is love.

  Hugh Latimer

  Charity, Christ, Lord

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• The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Social, Idle, Superiors

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• My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

  Max Lucado

  Boys, Encounters, Way

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• The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta.

  David James

  Stars, Italian, Clubs

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• I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Differences, Honour

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• Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Two, Honor, Target

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• I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Views, Paris, Honor

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• People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

  David Adam

  Creativity, Anchors, Sea

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• Jeremy used to hate it when she was younger because someone in her class told her redheads were freaks of nature.But our mother told her that redheads were genetically more courageous than other people and that she should always where her hair long,like a wariors badge of honor.

  Ellen Potter

  Mother, Hate, Hair

  Ellen Potter (2009). “Slob”, p.18, Penguin

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