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  <Quote>
    <Author>Alvin Toffler</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alvin Toffler</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alvin Toffler</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alvin Toffler</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alvin Toffler</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alvin Toffler</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alvin Toffler</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Knowledge is the most democratic source of power</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alvin Toffler</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alvin Toffler</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The great growling engine of change - technology</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Alvin Toffler</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ambrose Bierce</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ambrose Bierce</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ambrose Bierce</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>War is God's way of teaching Americans geography</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ambrose Bierce</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ambrose Bierce</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ambrose Bierce</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ambrose Bierce</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ambrose Bierce</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ambrose Bierce</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ambrose Bierce</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amelia Earhart</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The most effective way to do it, is to do it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amelia Earhart</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amelia Earhart</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Adventure is worthwhile in itself</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amelia Earhart</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amelia Earhart</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amelia Earhart</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I want to do it because I want to do it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amelia Earhart</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amelia Earhart</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amelia Earhart</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amelia Earhart</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amiri Baraka</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amiri Baraka</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>You can't be an American without being related to other Americans</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amiri Baraka</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amiri Baraka</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amiri Baraka</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amiri Baraka</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amiri Baraka</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amiri Baraka</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amiri Baraka</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amiri Baraka</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amitabh Bachchan</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amitabh Bachchan</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amitabh Bachchan</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>There are many things that I feel I have missed out on</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amitabh Bachchan</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amitabh Bachchan</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amitabh Bachchan</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I have never really been confident about my career at any stage</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amitabh Bachchan</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I have never been a superstar and never believed in it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amitabh Bachchan</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amitabh Bachchan</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amitabh Bachchan</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amy Winehouse</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amy Winehouse</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>There's no point in saying anything but the truth</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amy Winehouse</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm happiest with my family around me</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amy Winehouse</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amy Winehouse</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amy Winehouse</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I would say that jazz is my own language</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amy Winehouse</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amy Winehouse</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amy Winehouse</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Amy Winehouse</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Anatole France</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Anatole France</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Anatole France</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Anatole France</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It is by acts and not by ideas that people live</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Anatole France</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Anatole France</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Anatole France</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Anatole France</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Anatole France</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Anatole France</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andie MacDowell</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Sexiness comes with maturity</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andie MacDowell</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andie MacDowell</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm really not techno-savvy - that's just not my personality</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andie MacDowell</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andie MacDowell</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andie MacDowell</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andie MacDowell</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andie MacDowell</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andie MacDowell</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andie MacDowell</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Gide</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Gide</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Gide</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Gide</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Gide</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Gide</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Be faithful to that which exists within yourself</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Gide</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Gide</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Not everyone can be an orphan</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Gide</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Gide</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Maurois</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Maurois</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Maurois</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Maurois</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Maurois</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Maurois</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Maurois</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Business is a combination of war and sport</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Maurois</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Maurois</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andre Maurois</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrea Bocelli</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>All that counts in life is intention</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrea Bocelli</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrea Bocelli</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrea Bocelli</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrea Bocelli</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Success is related to faith. Faith comes first</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrea Bocelli</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrea Bocelli</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrea Bocelli</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrea Bocelli</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>You can be great only if it is your destiny</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrea Bocelli</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Carnegie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Carnegie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Carnegie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Carnegie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Carnegie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>All honor's wounds are self-inflicted</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Carnegie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>There is little success where there is little laughter</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Carnegie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Carnegie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Carnegie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Carnegie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Elevate those guns a little lower</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Jackson</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Lloyd Webber</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Lloyd Webber</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Lloyd Webber</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Lloyd Webber</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Lloyd Webber</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Lloyd Webber</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I've a rare Turkish swimming cat</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Lloyd Webber</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Lloyd Webber</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Lloyd Webber</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andrew Lloyd Webber</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Cohen</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Cohen</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Cohen</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Cohen</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Cohen</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm happy to be everybody's gay best friend</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Cohen</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Cohen</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Cohen</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Cohen</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I've been gay since the day I was born</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Cohen</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Goldsworthy</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Goldsworthy</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Goldsworthy</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Goldsworthy</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Goldsworthy</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Goldsworthy</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Goldsworthy</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Goldsworthy</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Goldsworthy</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Goldsworthy</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Grove</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Grove</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Grove</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Only the paranoid survive</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Grove</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Grove</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Grove</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Grove</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Grove</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Grove</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Grove</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Murray</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Murray</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Murray</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I am Scottish. I am also British</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Murray</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Murray</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Murray</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Murray</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Murray</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It's not the end of the world to lose</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Murray</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I don't play any tournaments to come second best</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Murray</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Rooney</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Rooney</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Rooney</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Rooney</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Rooney</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Rooney</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Rooney</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Rooney</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The average dog is a nicer person than the average person</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Rooney</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Nothing in fine print is ever good news</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Rooney</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Serkis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Serkis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Serkis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>My livelihood depends on the art of animators</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Serkis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Serkis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I play saxophone, I play tenor sax</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Serkis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Serkis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Serkis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Thank God for Skype!</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Serkis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Andy Serkis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Davis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>What this country needs is more unemployed politicians</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Davis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Davis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Davis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Davis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Davis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Davis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Davis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Davis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Davis</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Merkel</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Merkel</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Merkel</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Spying among friends is never acceptable</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Merkel</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Merkel</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Germany wants peaceful coexistence of Muslims and members of other religions</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Merkel</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Merkel</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Merkel</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Merkel</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>The willingness to learn new skills is very high</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angela Merkel</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angelina Jolie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angelina Jolie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angelina Jolie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angelina Jolie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angelina Jolie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angelina Jolie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angelina Jolie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angelina Jolie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angelina Jolie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Angelina Jolie</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ani DiFranco</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ani DiFranco</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ani DiFranco</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ani DiFranco</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ani DiFranco</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ani DiFranco</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ani DiFranco</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ani DiFranco</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ani DiFranco</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Taken out of context I must seem so strange</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ani DiFranco</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ann Coulter</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ann Coulter</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ann Coulter</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ann Coulter</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ann Coulter</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ann Coulter</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I'm not going to be lectured to</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ann Coulter</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ann Coulter</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ann Coulter</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
  <Quote>
    <Author>Ann Coulter</Author>
    <Language>English</Language>
    <QuoteValue>If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president</QuoteValue>
  </Quote>
</Quotes>

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Wide Bandgap
What Defines a WBG Semiconductor?
Physicists define the bandgap of a material as the difference in energy between the highest occupied state of the valence band (the band of electron orbits from which electrons jump when excited by the application of energy) and the lowest unoccupied state of the conduction band (the band to which those electrons can jump). The band gap dictates the energy required for electrons to move from the valence band to the conduction band.
Legacy silicon, which has been the primary material for semiconductors since the 1950s, has a bandgap of 1.1 eV. The latest wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors are those based on new and emerging materials that have bandgaps typically in the region of two to three times that of silicon.
What are the Benefits of WBG Semiconductors?
Silicon has been dominant for many years but is reaching its performance limits in a growing number of existing and emerging applications. Because WBG semiconductors can withstand higher electric fields they can sustain higher voltages. They can also operate at higher switching frequencies. The latter not only supports improved performance but also minimizes filtering requirements and allows the use of smaller external components (faster switching means energy is delivered in smaller packets and, therefore, less energy needs to be stored in the circuit's passive and inductive devices).
When compared to legacy silicon these factors translate into a number of benefits including smaller, faster, more efficient and more reliable operation. Higher voltage capabilities open up opportunities in higher power designs while dramatically improved efficiencies enable the same performance in smaller form factors or allow improved performance in the same form factor. Efficiency also has an impact on weight and, ultimately, the carbon emissions associated with the operation of the target application.
Many devices based on WBG technologies also offer the benefit that they can operate at higher maximum temperatures than their legacy silicon counterparts.
What WBG Materials are Used for Semiconductors?
A number of materials including boron nitride, silicon dioxide and even diamond are all defined as WBG materials.
GaN and SiC are the two most prevalent WBG technologies in use today
However, the most prevalent WBG semiconductors today are those based on gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC). The bandgaps of these materials are around three times greater than that of silicon, at 3.2 eV and 3.4 eV respectively.
What are the Differences Between GaN and SiC?
While GaN and SiC are compound semiconductors with similar bandgaps and both can support higher voltages and higher frequencies, there are a number of differences between the two technologies that impact how they work and where they are used.
Application design parameters for Si, GaN and SiC
The key differentiator between GaN and SiC is speed in terms of electron mobility – how quickly electrons can move through the semiconductor material. At 2,000 cm2/Vs, GaN's electron mobility is 30% faster than that of silicon and 300% faster than SiC, which makes it much more suitable for high-performance, high-frequency applications. With GaN, a very, very small percentage of the chip is actually consumed by the gate electrode. This ensures very low capacitance meaning it is very easy to get high frequencies. In fact, GaN semiconductors are widely used in RF devices that switch in the gigahertz range. Silicon carbide, on the other hand, has a lot of gate area, requires a very much higher gate charge to switch and is, therefore, slower.
GaN's wide band gap allows power applications with voltages between 100 V and 600 V to use smaller, more efficient chips, reducing costs and carbon emissions. SiC, with higher thermal conductivity and lower frequency operation is more suited for the highest power applications such as rail traction and wind turbines that require slower switching speeds and large heat dissipation.
GaN structure supports monolithic integration
One other factor is the potential for integration, which depends on the current flow within the WBG semiconductor material. SiC is a 'vertical' device that is optimized for high power only, while Navitas' GaN, for example, has a 'lateral' structure. The latter makes monolithic ('same chip') integration possible, enabling GaN power ICs to integrate power FETs with drive, logic, protection, sensing and control in a single chip.
WBG Semiconductor Applications
The following diagram illustrates the existing and potential applications for GaN and SiC in power applications.
GaN – The Second Revolution
In 1977, two major events changed the lives of many engineers: the movie "Star Wars" was released, and there was a revolution in power electronics. Since then we have had many Star Wars movies, many more new engineers and a new performance revolution, with wide bandgap materials, enhanced high-frequency magnetics, new controllers, enabled topologies and device integration.
What is the Potential for WBG Semiconductors?
The potential market for WBG semiconductors is already significant and growing rapidly as companies look to replace legacy silicon in existing applications and to harness the power of GaN and SiC in new and emerging designs where silicon cannot compete. At Navitas we believe there is a $13 billion electrification opportunity for GaN by 2026.

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At Convergence 2014 Microsoft representatives asked for volunteers to film short testimonial videos. Our client Heather Kneipfer, Financial Analyst and Dynamics GP user at Choate Rosemary Hall, graciously accepted.
What we thought would be a quick recording was actually a full scale video production complete with "Lights, Camera, Action".
Heather was a great sport and the finished product is a professional video that truly highlights the core mission of Choate Rosemary Hall and how Microsoft Dynamics GP helps them accomplish this.
We appreciate the compliment and thank Heather and the entire team at Choate Rosemary Hall.


It's getting a little crazy out there. Let's talk about multiple offers and buyers paying above the appraised value. I want to give some perspective from the lens of an appraiser, and I'd love to hear your take. Any thoughts?
MULTIPLE OFFERS: The other day I heard about a property that had 20 offers and the contract price ended up being 16% above the list price. What the? Clearly the market was willing to pay more than the list price, so maybe the property was priced too low. Yet if the seller accepted the very highest offer, are there really comps and data to support a value that high? That's always the question. Here are some things to keep in mind.
1) Magic: Appraisers aren't magicians. They have to support the value they say exists. Sometimes appraisers are told, "There were 20 offers above list price," and maybe that says something about value, but appraisers still have to use actual comps and adjustments in a report instead of the number of offers.
There are multiple offers above list price.
Are there multiple comps above list price?
2) Getting stuck on the list price: It's important for appraisers to be cautious not to give too much weight to the list price because sometimes it really doesn't reflect value at all. It might seem like a red flag for a property to be in contract 16% above the list price, but what if the property was priced 16% too low? Moreover, if the sales and pendings all support a value 16% higher, then it's a no-brainer to see the appraisal come in at that level. But if nothing is anywhere close to the contract price, then maybe the property got bid up too high.
3) One Buyer vs everyone: There might be one buyer willing to pay more than anyone for whatever reason, but market value is about what the market will pay. If a bank is going to lend on a property, it's a good bet to lend on market value rather than one individual buyer's perception of value.
4) Offering high: Let's remember some buyers make offers based on the amount they are qualified to borrow rather than looking at the comps. This reminds us sometimes high offers don't always mean value is there.
PAYING ABOVE THE APPRAISED VALUE: I'm hearing more from agents about contracts where the buyer says, "We'll pay $10,000 above the appraised value." This tends to happen in a market with low inventory and when buyers feel desperate about getting an offer accepted. Anyway, when I read a buyer is willing to pay above the appraised value, my gut reaction is to think the buyer probably believes the contract price is too high. Can you relate? Yet I'm paid to be objective, so I cannot let what a buyer wrote in a contract influence my conclusion of value. Besides, to be fair, contract verbiage like this might be about a buyer trying to get an offer accepted rather than what a buyer believes about value. Ultimately it's crucial to remember support for value is found in the market with comps and data rather than what a buyer writes in a contract (this is why I recommend agents to communicate well with appraisers).
Radio Interview: By the way, I had a 35-minute conversation last week on a financial radio show. If you need some background noise, check it out here.


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Roblox got its start five years ago, and in the words of its CEO, David Baszucki, has been "growing like gangbusters ever since." It's a free-to-play platform that takes its cues from Legos, the Sims, and a variety of other inspirations to create a unique space where kids can build, play, program, and market to their peers.
There are over 20 million user accounts on Roblox, and the site sees over 7 million unique visitors every month, mostly from the 8-14 age range, but even adults get into the fun sometimes. And what are all these people doing? They're playing games - games that are made by other people and games that they make themselves. In 2011, Roblox users created over 5.4 million such games, and spent over 20 million hours playing them - about twice as much time as LinkedIn users spend on the business social network.
"A lot of the stickiness comes from the variety," Baszucki told me. "People are building fantasies, obstacle courses, and building games."
I started my own Roblox account myself to check it out, and I have to admit I can see why people get stuck. Although I felt a little less creative than others - I spent most of my time playing games that basically involved trying to destroy buildings as quickly as possible or trying to rob a bank. Still, when I stepped back and realized that these games were created by people about half my age, I found myself impressed.
"There's a building kit for simple games," Baszucki explains. "But more advanced users can program complex things with our script capabilities, which is built on Lua - the same language used in World of Warcraft."
That, of course, provides a great way for kids to learn computer programming and computer science, lessons that get applied in the classrooms as well. In schools, kids have used to platform for everything from simulating tornadoes to building Mayan temples.
The game doesn't only provide lessons in computer science, however. It also provides some valuable lessons in marketing and commerce. Although the game platform is free-to-play, there's an in-game currency, called "ROBUX" that people can purchase in order to get in-game items such as new avatars and items. But that's not the only way to get ROBUX - players can also earn them by creating popular games. The more people play your games, the more ROBUX you earn. And players can also turn around and use those ROBUX to spend on in-game ads to drive players to their games.
Speaking of ads, another way Roblox monetizes its platform is offering advertising space to bigger customers to market in-game. For paid subscribers, though, one of the perks is that the only ads you see are those created internally by other players.
"We love the ads," says Baszucki. "They're funny."
This business model, where kids have fun learning how to program, build things, and gain some key business knowledge, is paying off for Roblox. The company has been ranked the #1 entertainment site for kids by ComScore, and its revenue has increased 75% year over year.
And they're not just succeeding by attracting kids - there are plenty of parents who play, too. But I'm sure that's only to make sure they know what their kids are doing. Right?


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New section 147 Reassessment procedure | Reason to believe Vs. Information
Utkarsha Aggarwal
| Income Tax - Articles
New Reassessment procedure under section 147 – "Reason to believe" Vs. "Information"
Finance Act, 2021 made the existing procedure of reassessment under section 147 of the Income Tax Act ('Act') completely redundant by substituting it with a new reassessment procedure. Memorandum Explaining the Finance Bill, 2021 makes it amply clear that such changes are killing two birds with one stone viz. 1. Less Litigations and 2. Ease of Doing business for the taxpayers. One of the foundational change in reassessment procedure is scrapping of "Reason to believe" concept and introducing technology driven concept of "information". This article has attempted to analyse the impact of such change on the entire reassessment procedure.
"Reason to believe" was the basic foundation of old reassessment procedure. The Assessing officer, based on "Reason to believe", was required to form a prima facie opinion that certain taxable income has escaped assessment. This very aspect of reassessment procedure was highly prone to litigations wherefore a number of judgements have been delivered by Hon'ble Supreme Court, various High Courts and ITATs. Some of these judgements are enumerated below:
1. ACIT Vs. Rajesh Jhaveri Stock Brokers Private Limited [Civil Appeal 2830 of 2007] – Hon'ble Supreme court held that at initiation stage, what is required is reason to believe, but not the established fact of escapement of income. At the stage of issue of notice, the only question is whether there was relevant material on which a reasonable person could have formed a requisite belief.
2. CIT Vs. Atul Jain [2008] 299 ITR 383 (Delhi) – Hon'ble Delhi High Court held that Assessing officer, based on information available with him, must record reasons which warrant the holding of belief that the case should be reopened."In United Electrical Co. P. Ltd. v. CIT [2002] 258 ITR 317, this court considered the entire issue afresh. It was observed that the expression "reason to believe" occurring in section 147 of the Act is crucial. Reference was made to Bazva Abhai Singh v. Deputy CIT [2002] 253 ITR 83 (Delhi), wherein it was observed that "reason to believe" postulates a foundation based on information and a belief based on reasons. In so far as "information" is concerned, a Division Bench of this court held in L. R. Gupta v. Union of India [1992] 194 ITR 32 that (page 322) "The expression 'information' must be something more than a mere rumour or a gossip or a hunch."
Of course, this was in the context of section 132 of the Act but as held in United Electrical Co. P. Ltd. [2002] 258 ITR 317 (Delhi) the logic is equally applicable to a case under section 147 of the Act. After a foundation based on information is set up, there must still be some reasons which warrant the holding of a belief so as to necessitate the issuance of a notice under section 148 of the Act."
3. SMCC Construction India Ltd. Vs. ACIT [2013] 38 taxmann.com 146 (Delhi) – Hon'ble Delhi High court held that "reason to believe" indicate that the belief must be that of a reasonable person based on reasonable grounds emerging from direct or circumstantial evidence and not on mere suspicion, gossip or rumour.
4. CIT Vs. Kelvinator of India Ltd. [2010] 187 taxmann 312 (SC) – Hon'ble Supreme Court held that mere change of opinion cannot be reason to reopen the case. The assessing officer has no power to review. He should have tangible material to come to the conclusion that there is escapement of income from assessment. Reasons must have a live link with the formation of belief.
5. ITO Vs. Purushottam Das Bangur [1997] 90 taxmann 541(SC)- Hon'ble Supreme Court held that for taking action under Section 147 of the Act (i) ITO must have received information and (ii) in consequence of such information he has reason to believe that income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment.
From the above cited case laws, it can be easily inferred that time and again Courts have ruled that mere availability of any information/ evidence/ tangible material is not enough to reopen the case for reassessment, in addition, the assessing officer must apply his mind on such information/ evidence/ tangible material and get a logical reason so as to form a prima facie (not conclusive) opinion that income has escaped assessment. However, Finance Act, 2021 has completely thrown away this approach and introduced the concept of "Information". Proviso to New Section 148 of the Act reads as follows:
"Provided that no notice under this section shall be issued unless there is information with the Assessing Officer which suggests that the income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment in the case of the assessee for the relevant assessment year and the Assessing Officer has obtained prior approval of the specified authority to issue such notice.
Explanation 1.—For the purposes of this section and section 148A, the information with the Assessing Officer which suggests that the income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment means,—
any information flagged in the case of the assessee for the relevant assessment year in accordance with the risk management strategy formulated by the Board from time to time;
any final objection raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India to the effect that the assessment in the case of the assessee for the relevant assessment year has not been made in accordance with the provisions of this Act."
The above provisions clearly show that assessing officer merely requires "information which suggests that taxable income has escaped assessment". More so, he is not required to record any reasons so as to how such "information" suggests that taxable income has escaped assessment because Explanation 1 to new section 148 gives a deeming fiction to not just "information" rather it gives a deeming fiction to entire phrase "information which suggests that income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment". In other words, where there was a lot of ambiguity on what constitute "Reason to believe" in earlier procedure, concept of "information" is quite well-defined. Explanation 1 covers two types of information viz. information flagged in accordance with Risk management strategy formulated by Board and final objection raised by CAG.
As far as first type of information is concerned, we are already aware that the income tax department is now collecting multiple information from third parties through Statement of Financial Transactions (SFT), Investigation wing of the Department, other law enforcement agencies like GST Department, Customs, etc. Over the past few months, many of such information e.g. high value transaction gets auto-populated in Form 26AS of the assessee for compliance or due consideration of such information in their Income Tax Returns. It is worth watching what logic/ rules the CBDT follows in order to formulate prescribed Risk management strategy to trap the cases wherein taxable income has escaped assessment.
With respect to second type of information (any final objection raised by the CAG to the effect that the assessment in the case of the assessee has not been made in accordance with the provisions of this Act), it is pertinent to note that any action of assessing officer in consonance with the audit objection raised by CAG will amount to change in opinion of the assessing officer in application of any particular provision of the act. In the erstwhile section 148 of the Act, the cases could not be reassessed merely on the ground of "Change in opinion". Hon'ble Supreme court in case of Indian & Eastern Newspaper Society Vs. CIT [1979] 2 taxmann 197 (SC) held that CAG perform administrative or executive functions. CAG cannot be attributed the power of judicial supervision that it can pronounce the law. The opinion rendered by the audit party in regard to the law cannot add to or colour the significance of such law. The true evaluation of the law in its bearing on the assessment must be made directly and solely by the ITO. Further, it was held that the opinion of internal audit party of the Income tax department or CAG on a point of law cannot be regarded as "information" within the meaning of section 147 of the Act.
Hence, one may say that final audit objection by CAG, even though not form "information", however deemed as "information" by Explanation 1 to new section 148 of the Act.
Further, Finance Act, 2021 introduced a new section 148A setting out a procedure which is required to be followed before issue of notice under section 148. Such procedure can be summarized as follows:
1. Assessing officer shall conduct any inquiry, if required, with the prior approval of specified authority, with respect to the information which suggests that the income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment.
2. Provide an opportunity of being heard to the assessee with the prior approval of specified authority
3. Consider the reply of assessee furnished, if any
4. Decide on the basis of material available on record including reply of the assessee, whether or not it is a fit case to issue a notice under section 148, by passing an order, with the prior approval of specified authority.
The above procedure is required to be followed before issue of notice under section 148 of the Act. The Assessing officer having a bag containing "information which suggests that taxable income has escaped assessment" in terms of Explanation 1 of new Section 148 of the Act, moves to newly inserted section 148A of the Act. Now section 148A requires assessing officer to conduct an enquiry with respect to such information. It would be giving you the essence of "Reason to believe" era wherein assessing officer had to apply his mind on the information/ evidence/ tangible material to form prima facie opinion whether taxable income has escaped assessment or not. But hold on, sec. 148A of the Act does not mandatorily require assessing officer to conduct enquiry. Use of the words "if required" is vague. No cases have been specified by the new provision wherein assessing officer has to conduct enquiry with respect to "information suggesting income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment". It will lead to a subjective approach on the part of income tax authorities – where they may conduct enquiry in one case but may not in other.
Moreover, new section 148A of the Act requires that opportunity of being heard should be given to the assessee before issue of notice under section 148 of the Act. Earlier, relying on procedure dictated by Hon'ble Supreme Court in case of GKN Driveshafts (India) Limited Vs. ITO [Appeal no. 7731 of 2002], notice under section 148 of the Act requiring to file return of income was issued and post filing of such return of income, the assessee could seek the "reason to believe" based on which assessing officer had reopened the case. But after insertion of section 148A, it seems that entire fact-finding exercise will take place even before issue of notice under section 148 of the Act. If the taxable income has escaped from assessment, then assessing officer shall pass an order that it is a fit case for reassessment and issue notice under section 148 of the Act. Now, if assessee agrees with the assessing officer's contention, he can show that unassessed income in the return and duly pay tax. In such case, the addition by assessing officer will be 'Nil'. However, there is a tweak.
Explanation to new section 147 of the Act reads as follows:
"Explanation.—For the purpose of assessment or reassessment or recomputation under this section, the Assessing Officer may assess or reassess the income in respect of any issue, which has escaped assessment, and such issue comes to his notice subsequently in the course of the proceedings under this section, irrespective of the fact that the provisions of section 148A have not been complied with."
The erstwhile Section 147 of the Act read as follows:
"If the Assessing Officer has reason to believe that any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment for any assessment year, he may, subject to the provisions of sections 148 to 153, assess or reassess such income and also any other income chargeable to tax which has escaped assessment and which comes to his notice subsequently in the course of the proceedings under this section, or recompute the loss or the depreciation allowance or any other allowance, as the case may be, for the assessment year concerned"
Upon careful reading of both the provisions, one can notice that in erstwhile section 147 of the Act if taxable income escaping assessment for which assessing officer issued notice under section 148 of the Act gets assessed, then only, assessing officer could also assess other taxable income which has escaped assessment in the relevant year for which he had not issued notice under section 148 of the Act and comes to his notice in subsequent proceeding. The same contention was taken by Hon'ble Bombay High Court in case of CIT Vs. Jet Airways (I) Ltd. [2010] 195 taxmann 117 (Bombay) which held that the words 'and also' cannot be ignored. The words 'and also' cannot be read as being in the alternative. On the contrary, the correct interpretation would be to regard these words as being conjunctive and cumulative.
However, new section 147 of the Act nowhere uses the word "also". Resultantly, the assessing officer would have excessive power to do reassessment on any issue for that year irrespective of the fact that addition of income for which "information" was raised has been done or not.
In conclusion, unlike old reassessment procedure where meaning of "Reason to believe" was subject to litigations, it a good step that basis for reopening the case has been well-defined by new provisions. Further, since there is no compulsion that assessing officer must conduct enquiry with respect to the "information suggesting income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment", it may result into reopening of plethora of irrelevant cases and causing hardship to the taxpayers. To reduce such instances, CBDT must come with a robust technology having strong logics/ rules which correctly flag "information suggesting income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment."
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CA Vimal Kabra says:
Very Nice Article making the comparison of the old and new Reassessment Provisions in a very simple and lucid manner
Utkarsha Aggarwal says:
Thanks a lot Mr. Kabra. Your words really motivated me!!🤗
Lavish says:
A welcome step, however, litigations will depend on the Risk implementation Strategy formulated by CBDT.
Absolutely Mr. Lavish!
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Very well explained 👍👍👍
Thank you Dhanu ✌
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