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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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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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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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The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance of the weaker EU countries regaining competitiveness.
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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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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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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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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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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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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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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.
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It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.
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The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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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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The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.
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The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.
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Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.
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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes
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