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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.

Bill Bonner

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.
BILL BONNER

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.
BILL BONNER

Fitness Motivational Running
Everything you need is already inside.
BILL BONNER

Gym Motivational Running Sports
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.
BILL BONNER

Civilization Consumer Done Needs
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.
BILL BONNER

Believe Lying Simple
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
Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings…pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives.
BILL BONNER

Art Careers Experience Real Rock
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.
BILL BONNER

Littles Man Rich Want Wealth
You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
BILL BONNER

Forget Impossibility Recovery
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.
BILL BONNER

Block Man Party
The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
BILL BONNER

Country Revolution Ruins Tate
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
BILL BONNER

Runners Running Weather
The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
BILL BONNER

Leader Way World
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.
BILL BONNER

Begin Eventually Government Painkillers
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.
BILL BONNER

Country Debt None Problem
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
BILL BONNER

Failing Harness Succeed

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