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Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

George Soros

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
The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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Hard Judgement Level Life Risk
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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Correct Fake Myself Oneself Prediction Valid Work
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
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Freedom Money Oneself
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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Obstacle Order Stability World
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
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Economics Fancy God Kind
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.
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Beginning Comfortable Creation God Kind Live Myself Sick
To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
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Mistake Myself Pride Recognition Shame Wrong
I’m not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
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Better Mistake Move On Opportunity Quick Trade
In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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Finding Manipulation Politics Reality
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
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Criticism Myself Qualification Reality Study Theory
Market prices are always wrong.
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Market One Liner Price Wrong
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation

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