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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.

Bill Bonner

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
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
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
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
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
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
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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Athlete Innovation Inspiration
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
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
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational
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
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
If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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Looks Outlook Secret Source
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
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

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