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“George believes that his gift on this earth is that he can take very complex situations and reduce them to their simplest form
'God in the Old Testament has a number of attributes, you know. Like invisible—I was pretty invisible. Benevolent—I was pretty benevolent. All-seeing—I tried to be all-seeing!”
“And the other thing is that in my previous lives I always had to keep things secret, starting with having to live with a false identity. So to me it’s the reward for success (lives..)
his newest project, Death in America, whose aim is to promote a better understanding of the experiences of dying and grief, and to transform the culture surrounding death. Soros said in the speech, “In America, the land of the perpetually young, growing older is an embarrassment, and dying is a failure'
“By having these foundations, I was sort of able to play God, right?” Soros began, in his didactic way. “I was something above it, outside it, benevolent, farsighted, godlike—O.K.? If I become an investor, I come down to earth, you know? I’m just a player.
“So in some ways it may be the final coming to terms with being a human being, after all,” he continued, with a trace of a smile. “In that way, I feel it’s a little bit painful, quite tricky—but, in a way, it’s the ultimate challenge: to accept the human condition.” ♦
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