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  1. Robert Harris _ Pompeii

    The natural impulse of men is to follow, he thought, and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate the rest.
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  2. Robert Harris _ Pompeii

    The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.
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  3. Robert Harris _ Pompeii

    Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195"
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  4. Robert Harris _ Pompeii

    Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth is becoming warmer-it must be our fault! The mountain is destroying us-we have not propitiated the gods! It rains too much, it rains too little-a comfort to think that these things are somehow connected to our behavior, that if only we lived a little better, a little more frugally, our virtue would be rewarded. But here was nature, sweeping toward him-unknowable, all-conquering, indifferent-and he saw in her fires the futility of human pretensions.
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  5. Robert Harris _ Pompeii

    People perish. Books are immortal.
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  6. Robert Harris _ Pompeii

    But only a fool sails into combat with nature
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  7. Robert Harris _ Pompeii

    What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason
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  8. Robert Harris _ Pompeii

    To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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