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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

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
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Helping Mechanic Running
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
Everything you need is already inside.
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Gym Motivational Running Sports
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
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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Athlete Coaches Health Update
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.
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Art Careers Experience Real Rock
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
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What
There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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Funny Motivational Nike
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
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
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
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Smart Teacher Teaching

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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