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“[Stephen Lucas is among those compelled to watch. The images serve as a reminder of why he left his insurance business and the only place he called home after facing Hurricane Katrina.] I’ve lived through every storm that’s hit that area since 1956, so I rode that one out and it scared the hell out of me, ... To hear those winds come roaring in, those sustained winds, I don’t ever want to go through another hurricane again.”
Stephen Lucas
“The led must not be compelled, they must be able to choose their own leader”
Albert Einstein
“[What guided Einstein was that, in his mid-twenties, he found the unknown intriguing. He felt compelled to comprehend what might have been intended for our universe by The Old One (as he referred to his notion of God).] We are in the position, ... of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.”
“When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The bull case on copper has grown even more compelling over the last month. Sentiment in the copper market has been boosted by yet more disruption to production.”
Andrew Cole
“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.”
Shana Alexander
“If [the investor group] wanted to do something compelling they would come out with a dollar figure. But other than saying I'm a better guy than he is, there is nothing new here.”
Andrew Brousseau
