Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.
BILL BONNERA teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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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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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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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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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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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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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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You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
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Everything you need is already inside.
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If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.
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Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies… and often dangerous ones.
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And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.
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The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
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A man’s wealth can…also be measured by what he doesn’t have and doesn’t want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.
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