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Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.

Bill Bonner

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
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
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
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Smart Teacher Teaching
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
That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
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Forever Learning Wisdom
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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Believe Lying Simple
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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Answer Competition Games Jumping Olympians Throwing
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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Littles Man Rich Want Wealth
The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
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Leader Way World
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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Giving Guy Trying
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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Athlete Innovation Inspiration
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What
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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Country Revolution Ruins Tate
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

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