You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
BILL BONNERA teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself.
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The idea that the harder you work, the better you’re going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.
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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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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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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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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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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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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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