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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel.
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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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I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect.
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Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.
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Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected
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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.
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I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what, in a sense, market fundamentalism does, because it is in the interests of people who have a lot of money to have as little taxes as possible.
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However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.
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Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests.
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I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.
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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.
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Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
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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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I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.
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We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
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Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.
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Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.
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