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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.

Bill Bonner

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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Running Smart Teacher
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
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
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
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
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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Giving Guy Trying
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
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
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
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
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
Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Inspiration Motivational Sports Victory
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What
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
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
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

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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