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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that’s rather shocking for Americans to hear.

George Soros

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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Hands heavy Need Success Time Yourself
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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Obstacle Order Stability World
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that’s rather shocking for Americans to hear.
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Myself Obstacle Opinion Stability Thinking World
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
I’m not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
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Better Mistake Move On Opportunity Quick Trade
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
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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Correction Errors Insecurity Myself
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
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Criticism Myself Qualification Reality Study Theory
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
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
It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.
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Beginning Comfortable Creation God Kind Live Myself Sick
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
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
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
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
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Finding Interest Manipulation Politics Truth
The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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Financial Global Path System
American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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Competition Greatness Rival Threat World
No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That’s one of the positive features of markets. That’s why they function.
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Attention Feature Influence Market Moral Oneself Participant Pay Positive Price
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
Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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End Enthusiasm Revolution Start Tears
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
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
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 sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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Institution International Law State
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
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Better Intelligence Investment Limitation Understand

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that’s rather shocking for Americans to hear.

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