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You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.

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
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
God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Helping Mechanic Running
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
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Smart Teacher Teaching
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
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
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
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
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational
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
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
There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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Funny Motivational Nike
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
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
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

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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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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