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• If you weren’t there, how do you know someone pushed her?” Sergeant Kenn asked. “Well …,” said Jared. “And what were you doing, running through a strange town at night?” “I was jogging?” Jared offered. “Without your shirt or your shoes?” “Uh,” said Jared.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Running, Night, Shoes

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.58, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

  Bill Mauldin

  Mean, Army, Men

  "Up Front". Book by Bill Mauldin, 1945.

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• He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didn’t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldier’s head. He didn’t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another.

  Libba Bray

  War, Lying, Fall

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• School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Teacher, School

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Coquette, Coquetry, Victim

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• Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Bridges, Cities

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.52, Random House

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• Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.

  Lin Yutang

  Army, Thinking, Color

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Character, Trying

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• All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Summer, Lonely, Heart

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• But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.

  Tamora Pierce

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.345, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

  Michael Bergin

  Mother, Father, Police

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• The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.

  John Flanagan

  Littles, Weapons, Annoying

  John Flanagan (2011). “The Sorcerer in the North (Ranger's Apprentice Book 5)”, p.215, Random House

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• If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Thinking, Would Be

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• The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

  Charles Dickens

  Military, Drinking, And Love

  Charles Dickens (1874). “Barnaby Rudge. Sketches. pt.2”

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• Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.

  James P. Gorman

  Dog, Drama, Cat

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