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So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

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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
That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
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Forever Learning Wisdom
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Failing Harness Succeed
Everything you need is already inside.
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Gym Motivational Running Sports
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
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
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
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 athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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Athlete Coaches Health Update
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
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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Athlete Innovation Inspiration
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
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
Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.
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Balance Checks Constraints Construction Example

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