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We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

Speak Triumph Capitalism World
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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

Choose Home Value freedom Liberties
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A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy

A full Fair Discussion Essential
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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.

Markets Designed Individuals Private needs
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Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
Misconceptions Play Prominent role World
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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.

Regulating Taxpayers Enforcement Incarceration cost
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Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

Globalization World Interdependent International politics
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The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

World Looking to Leadership Past
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A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

Global economy Free movement Goods Services
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The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

Main enemy Open society Communist Capitalist
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It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.
Much easier Existing resources Develop
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I created MMG years ago. My desire was to create a space where the most talented artists in the world could be nurtured and supported. With that came a commitment. I vowed to support these artists through the good and the bad.

Artists Bad Came Commitment
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The rollout of a classic has to have the heart of all the people working it. There's no way they can have their heart in it if they don't believe in it.

Believe Classic Heart People
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I eat the way I want to eat.

Eat Want Way
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I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

Any Anyone Better Heavy
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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.

Interest rate Low Conditions Asset bubbles
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If you set a regimen up, you can lose weight. I grinded my weight off.

Lose Off Regimen Set
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Art Creating Gardens Imaginary
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I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

Called gold Ultimate bubble Higher Safe
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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Disease Itself Passion People
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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.

Economic Science Objective Scientific
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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

About Almost Any Himself
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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

Sum up Skills Survival Operating
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Am Excitement Fabric Governed
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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe
Hardest thing Judge Risk Safe
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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Much Sarcasm Suffering Too
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Hard He Himself Unable
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Superior people never make long visits.

Long Make Never People
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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

Investment decision Scientific hypothesis
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Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

View Possible Financial Hypotheses
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Human Human Nature Middle Nature
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The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

Concept General equilibrium Relevance Real world
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Appraisal Appraise Blunder Cannot
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The only thing that could hurt me is if my success encouraged me to return to my childhood fantasies of omnipotence -- but that is not likely to happen as long as I remain engaged in the financial markets, because they constantly remind me of my limitations.

Hurt me Success Return Childhood
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Noun Poetry
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Contagion Make Makes Sickness
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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Father Long Make Never
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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.

Carry Argument Logical conclusion Life
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Artist Doubt Interest No Interest
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When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.

Sell options Assuming risk Profitable business
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There never was a war that was not inward.

Inward Never War
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I can't even plan tomorrow.
Even Can't Plan Tomorrow
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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

Contend Financial market Never reflect
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Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Beauty Dust Everlasting Time
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It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

Became Conversation Day Divorce
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Bondage Impatience Independence
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I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!

Coaster Falling Feeling Figure
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Been Belief Captive Free
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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Doubt Everything Explains Nothing
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Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

Being Career Confusing Fat
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