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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

Bill Bonner

The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need — we’re done for.
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Civilization Consumer Done Needs
None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.
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Country Debt None Problem
People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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Deserve People Want
The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person’s situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
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Develop Explain Guidance Situation Soon
Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.
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Agreement Liberal People Want
If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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Done End Race Winner
The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
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Heart Real Running
People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don’t know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won’t sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats – the rich…the banks…the Chinese.
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People Real Scapegoats Upset
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Smart Teacher Teaching
Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.
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Balance Checks Constraints Construction Example
Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Inspiration Motivational Sports Victory
So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
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Current Good Guy might Next Practical
Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
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Adversity Men Running Themselves
I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he’s a student, how’s he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that’s an important form of sport and recreation, too.
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Running Sports Thinking
If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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Looks Outlook Secret Source
Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings…pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives.
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Art Careers Experience Real Rock

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