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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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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
You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
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Forget Impossibility Recovery
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Failing Harness Succeed
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
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
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
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
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
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
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
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
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
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
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
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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Athlete Coaches Health Update
Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Inspiration Motivational Sports Victory

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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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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