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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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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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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.
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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 strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
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It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.
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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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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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Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
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A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.
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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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Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.
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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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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.
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Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
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The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.
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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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