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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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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.
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Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.
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Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
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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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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the imagination of the German public, and the German public has accepted it.
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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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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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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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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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At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But it will also need additional revenues. Should the government not receive them, we will all get punished with higher interest rates.
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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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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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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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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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I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.
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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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President George W. Bush is endangering the United States and the world's safety while undermining American values.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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