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The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

— Knute Nelson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

— Robert Blair

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.

— Flea

The only dangerous scene is when James Cromwell put a stake in my chest. But other than that, it turned out to be quite a punch. I didn't think much of it.

— Andre Braugher

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

— Samuel Fuller

It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.

— Chris Van Hollen

The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

— Betty Comden

The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard's complexion. It's a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.

— Elvis Mitchell

✗Opposing Perspectives

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

— Anna Akhmatova

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

— Thomas Campbell

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

— Philip Gibbs