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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

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
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
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
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Economics Fancy God Kind
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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Investment Practice Science Submit
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Finding Interest Manipulation Politics Truth
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
Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Establishment Persistence Run
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
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
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Condition Failure Human Imperfection Mistake Ourselves Understand Wrong
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
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Aware Myself Rich 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
Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.
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Instability Management Money Regulation Risk Transaction Way
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 scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection

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