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If you have a body, you are an athlete!

Bill Bonner

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
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
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 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
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
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
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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Athlete Coaches Health Update
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
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
God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Helping Mechanic Running
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
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Failing Harness Succeed
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
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
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

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