'Bill Gates Is Just a Figurehead. I Am Actively Engaged'

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In a way it's much harder to spend it in a socially responsible way than to earn it, ' he says, sweeping back his hair, which has turned more silver since we last met five years ago. 'When you're making money you have simple criteria, which is the bottom line.

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'Bill Gates Is Just a Figurehead. I Am Actively Engaged'

In the bookcase in George Soros's South Kensington drawing-room, neatly lined up beside works on Kant, Adam Smith and Karl Popper, are multiple copies of Open Society, written by one of today's aspiring philosophers:

Soros himself. The literary line-up is testament to the Hungarian-American billionaire's search for something that money can't buy -- acceptance at the same ta...

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