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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

Bill Bonner

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
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
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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Athlete Coaches Health Update
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
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
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational
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
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
People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don’t know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won’t sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats – the rich…the banks…the Chinese.
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People Real Scapegoats Upset
God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Helping Mechanic Running
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
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
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
Everything you need is already inside.
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Gym Motivational Running Sports
Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Inspiration Motivational Sports Victory

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