You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
BILL BONNERNone 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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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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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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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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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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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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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I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
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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 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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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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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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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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