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.
BILL BONNERThe real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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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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I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.
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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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If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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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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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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Everything you need is already inside.
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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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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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