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Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

George Soros

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
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Believe Enemy Myself Open Society Threat
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
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Marketing Myself Opposite Right Wisdom
There is no point in being confident and having a small position.
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Confidence Position Small
The world order needs a major overhaul.
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Need Order Stop World
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
Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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Deal Economics Goodness Preparation Study
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
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Greatness Interest Member Open Possible Society
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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Fake Finding Trend
The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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Financial Global Path System
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Marketing Reality Science
If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.
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Care Democracy Establishment Freedom Guard Institution Safe Universe
No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That’s one of the positive features of markets. That’s why they function.
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Attention Feature Influence Market Moral Oneself Participant Pay Positive Price
Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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Confidence Position Scale Yourself
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Economics Fancy God Kind
The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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Hard Judgement Level Life Risk

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