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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.
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Banker Blowing Brains Hang Head Secretaries
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
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
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
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
God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Helping Mechanic Running
If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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Done End Race Winner
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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Heart Real Running
The idea that the harder you work, the better you’re going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.
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Garbage Ideas Men
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
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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Athlete Innovation Inspiration
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
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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Giving Guy Trying
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Failing Harness Succeed
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What

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