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Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

George Soros

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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Introduction Policy Process
When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.
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Crowd Follow Lose Momentum Rise Time
It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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Fake Ideology Money Word
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
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Condition Failure Human Imperfection Mistake Ourselves Understand Wrong
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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Freedom Home Myself Open Society Value
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
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Better Intelligence Investment Limitation Understand
Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
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Discount Expectation Inspirational Risk
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
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Country Independent Lying Right Strength Talk Thinking
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one’s conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.
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Carry Flaw Life Logic Meaning Oneself See
Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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End Enthusiasm Revolution Start Tears
The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don’t have much personal use for money.
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Difference Ideas Interest Kind Money Myself People Personal
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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Correction Errors Insecurity Myself
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
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Democracy Government International Mindset People Solution State
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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Hands heavy Need Success Time Yourself
Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.
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Instability Management Money Regulation Risk Transaction Way
Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
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Concept Growth Market Reality Stock

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