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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

God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Helping Mechanic Running
Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Inspiration Motivational Sports Victory
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
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
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Failing Harness Succeed
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.
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Country Debt None Problem
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
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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Current Good Guy might Next Practical
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
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
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
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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Athlete Coaches Health Update
The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person’s situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
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Develop Explain Guidance Situation Soon
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.
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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
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
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
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Smart Teacher Teaching
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
I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he’s a student, how’s he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that’s an important form of sport and recreation, too.
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Running Sports Thinking
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What
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
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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Giving Guy Trying
You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
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Forget Impossibility Recovery
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational

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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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