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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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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
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
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 athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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Athlete Coaches Health Update
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
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
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
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
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
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational
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
Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Inspiration Motivational Sports Victory
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
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
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
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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Adversity Men Running Themselves

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