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

George Soros

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
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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Correction Errors Insecurity Myself
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
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
If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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Boredom Entertainment Investment Money
Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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End Enthusiasm Revolution Start Tears
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
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
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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Concept Play Role View World
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
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
American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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Competition Greatness Rival Threat World
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
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
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
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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Basic Mistake Recognition Rich Wrong

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