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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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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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Develop Explain Guidance Situation Soon
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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People Real Scapegoats Upset
Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Inspiration Motivational Sports Victory
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
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational
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
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Failing Harness Succeed
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
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
God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Helping Mechanic Running
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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Hockey Running Sports
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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Country Debt None Problem
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
If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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Done End Race Winner
Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don’t apologize for it. They don’t hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they’re proud of it… announcing that they ‘saved civilization,’ or some such claptrap.
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Banker Blowing Brains Hang Head Secretaries
If someone says, ‘Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?’ ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?…. The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
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Fitness Motivational Running
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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Garbage Ideas Men
Several of my critics have said, ‘Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.’ They’re partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? ‘Don’t overcoach.’
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Athlete Giving Running
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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Agreement Liberal People Want
If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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Delayed Gratification Long Mark
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
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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Behaviour Change Number Original World
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 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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Civilization Consumer Done Needs
Everything you need is already inside.
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Gym Motivational Running Sports
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

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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