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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More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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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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Everything you need is already inside.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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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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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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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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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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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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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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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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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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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