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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

Bill Bonner

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 you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational
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
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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Block Man Party
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Smart Teacher Teaching
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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Begin Eventually Government Painkillers
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
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
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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Giving Guy Trying
If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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Looks Outlook Secret Source
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
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Failing Harness Succeed
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
Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Inspiration Motivational Sports Victory
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

God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

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