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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.
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Smart Teacher Teaching
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
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
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What
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
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
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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Athlete Innovation Inspiration
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
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
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

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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