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"Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."
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"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
"Life can only be experienced."
"Infinite and finite are both mental constructs."
"Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt."
"Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real."
"To live a fantasy is to avoid a life."
"You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real."
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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."
"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."
"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 under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs."
"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
"There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well."
"We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity."
"I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs."
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