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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.

George Soros

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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Finding Manipulation Politics Reality
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
Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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Fake Finding Trend
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Marketing Reality Science
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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Concept Play Role View 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
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
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
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
I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Animal Greatness Myself
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
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
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
When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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Condition Development Gold Interest Rate Ultimate
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
Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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End Enthusiasm Revolution Start Tears

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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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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