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Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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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 think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.
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I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.
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I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to help banks take toxic assets off their balance sheets. I argued that it would be much better to put the money where the hole was and replenish the equity of the banks themselves.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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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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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.
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Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.
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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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As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
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The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
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Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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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.
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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'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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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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As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.
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