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  • Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. -- William Shakespeare
  • We don't need no stinking badges! -- John Belushi
  • Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -- William Shakespeare
  • Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero. -- David D. Burns
  • The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. -- Marcus Garvey
  • I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer. -- Hjalmar Schacht
  • It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge. -- Pete Waterman
  • I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years. -- Dan Aykroyd
  • When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show. -- Drew Carey
  • But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics. -- Tim Holden
  • I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how. -- Lionel Blue
  • We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege. -- Lawton Chiles
  • We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast. -- Mark Hoppus
  • Apparently they're going to bring in Super Asbos. But Asbos already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them Gaybos or Bender Badges. -- Frankie Boyle
  • The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you. -- Judd Nelson
  • I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor. -- Michael Scheuer
  • There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge - but not a sausage. -- Billy Connolly
  • 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
  • The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them. -- Juliette Gordon Low
  • The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me. -- Audie Murphy
  • Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. -- Charles Ives
  • Don't get me started on the little airplane name badges," Natalie grumbled. -- Peter Lerangis
  • Old as carbon, Nix agreedAnd so powerful I'm working on my demigoddess badges. -- Kresley Cole
  • Old as carbon," Nix agreedAnd so powerful I'm working on my demigoddess badges." -- Kresley Cole
  • I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day. -- Wayne Rooney
  • The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta. -- David James
  • I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them! -- Maggie Kuhn
  • War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges. -- Philip Glenister
  • Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break. -- Steven Gerrard
  • People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind. -- Joy Kogawa
  • You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now. -- Charles Stross
  • Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham. -- Gordon Taylor
  • 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
  • Having a bunch of medals and badges doesn't necessarily mean you've achieved anything, you've got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in life. Seek to be consequential in whatever you do. -- Paula Broadwell
  • Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please. -- Oliver Goldsmith
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