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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

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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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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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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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Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.
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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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America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.
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My main concern is with the world order
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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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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.
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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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I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.
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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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My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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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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