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The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

George Soros

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.
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Assumption Poor Start Wrong Yourself
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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Obstacle Order Stability World
What works for Germany can’t work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
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Country Resource Run Work
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
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Business Health Law Politics Society
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
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Government Misery Poverty Weakness World
The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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Financial Global Path System
I don’t panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I’m given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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Basic Despair Fear Mistake Myself Panic Recognition Survive
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
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
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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Big Myself Situation Worst
Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Establishment Persistence Run
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
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
My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.
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Concept Criticism Frame Important Mistake Myself Wrong
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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Concept Play Role View World
Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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Anticipate Event Influence Marketing

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