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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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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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As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.
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The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
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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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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.
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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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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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Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.
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The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.
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The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.
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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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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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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.
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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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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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Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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