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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

George Soros

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
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Financial Ideas Marketing Prediction
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
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
It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.
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Important Lose Money Right Wrong Yourself
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
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Follow Institution Performance Relation Trend Trouble
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
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 scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
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 financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
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Determination Economics Function Marketing Role
There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.
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Difference Future Investment Profit Success Yourself
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
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Consequence Global Imagination Market Myself Place Present Trauma
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
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
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
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

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