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  • Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you? -- Haddon W. Robinson
  • You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers. -- Steve Bartlett
  • I'm running for Governor, and this Honey Badger is ready to fight. -- Scott Gessler
  • He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels -- Henri Michaux
  • Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. -- Kenneth Grahame
  • When you are about to badger the weak,Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man. -- Thiruvalluvar
  • My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal. -- Nigel Dennis
  • I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating. -- Katie Couric
  • Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers. -- Mallory Ortberg
  • It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger. -- Tom Holt
  • I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game. -- Bill Bailey
  • Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Cubans understand that theirs is a country that provides sanctuary for people fleeing oppression. As a nation, they are very proud of this stance. They don't care how much the U.S. government badgers or attacks them. -- Assata Shakur
  • The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. -- Kenneth Grahame
  • During the last century a seven-year-old boy, Harry Service, was lost from his family's home in Manitoba and lived for two weeks with a badger in its underground den. When he was found he said that the badger had brought him food several times.... -- Sally Carrighar
  • Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit. -- Gwen Moore
  • I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair. -- Whitney Houston
  • The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack. -- James Howell
  • The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. -- Julian Assange
  • If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul. -- Yann Martel
  • Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves. -- Barry Lopez
  • One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?' Which says something about the nature of philosophers , because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone. -- Terry Pratchett
  • He missed having a wild green world on his doorstep - no rabbits or pheasants or badgers. -- Kate Atkinson
  • A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone. -- Horace
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