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Personality

"It takes a great man to be a good listener."

- Calvin Coolidge

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Shaan (singer)

Shaan (born Shantanu Mukherjee (Bengali: শান্তনু মুখার্জী) on September 30, 1972), is an Indian singer. He was the host for the popular show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa from 2000–2006 and also for Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs. Shaan is also the host for another popular reality show called Star Voice of India. He is currently hosting the sequel to Star Voice of India, Star Voice of India 2.

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Art

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together"

- Vincent Van Gogh

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Forex Trade

Forex trading is the strategy of engaging in transactions that make it possible to purchase the currency issued by one nation while selling currency issued by a different country. This foreign exchange or Forex trade is usually conducted in hopes of increasing the value of the investment over time and thus enhancing the overall value of the investment portfolio. Investing by means of a Forex trade shares some characteristics with other types of trading activity, but also has a few factors that are unique to the Forex market.

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Love

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

- Mother Teresa

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eMarketing

When the majority of the world's population with disposable income gained access to the internet, marketing changed forever. Electronic marketing, or eMarketing, became one of the best tools that a business could use to reach potential customers and make sales. Online marketing and internet marketing are other names for the same practice of doing business on the internet, but they all mean the same thing: using the internet to attract and keep customers, and for the purpose of developing a brand.

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Character

"The things that we love tell us what we are."

- Saint Thomas Aquinas

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CareCredit®?

CareCredit® is like a credit card that is used for only health and medical expenses. One of the benefits of CareCredit® financing is that it can be used for animals’ veterinary costs, as well as for medical and dental procedures for the cardholder or the cardholder’s family members.

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History

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."

- George S. Patton

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Market Value

Market value refers to the price that a seller of real property can expect to receive from a buyer in a fair and open negotiation. Typically, the market value of a home or other real property, such as land, is determined by professional appraisers or real estate agents and is based on a variety of specific key factors. Especially in tumultuous markets, market value can flucutate dramatically, and while your real estate professional may determine one "market value" for your house, the reality in the end is that the true market value is determined by what a buyer is willing to pay for it.

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Love

"No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved"

- Mignon McLaughlin

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Insourcing

Outsourcing is a familiar term and most people understand it to mean taking part of a company’s work and giving it to another company, very commonly a company located elsewhere where labor may be less expensive. A related practice is insourcing. This term is newer, and has several definitions that aren’t exactly the opposite of outsourcing, which can be somewhat complicated to understand.

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nature

"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."

- Katharine Graham

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P. B. Sreenivas

P.B. Sreenivas (Telugu: ప్రతివాది భయంకర శ్రీనివాస్, Kannada: ಪೀ. ಬೀ. ಶ್ರೀನೀವಾಸ್, Tamil: பிரதிவாதி பயங்கர ஸ்ரீநிவாஸ்) is a playback singer from South India. He has sung in Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu films. He is known for his playback singing in the Kannada film industry for Rajkumar.

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Patriotism

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

- Nathan Hale

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Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi (Gujarati: નરેંદ્ર દામોદરદાસ મોદી, IPA: [nəɾɛn̪d̪ɾə d̪ämod̪əɾd̪äs mod̪i]; born 17 September 1950[1]) is the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat since 7 October 2001.

He participated in the rise to political dominance of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat as its elections organiser in the early 1990s. This was the period which led to the election of the party in 1995. He became Gujarat's Chief Minister in October 2001, promoted to the office at a time when his predecessor Keshubhai Patel had resigned, following the defeat of BJP in the by-elections.

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Time

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

- William Penn

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M. S. Subbulakshmi

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (Tamil: மதுரை சண்முகவடிவு சுப்புலட்சுமி, Mathurai Caṇmukavaṭivu Cuppulaṭcumi [?]), popularly known as M.S. or M.S.S.) (September 16, 1916 - December 11, 2004) was a renowned Carnatic vocalist. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor.

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Dream

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

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Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, KCIE (other spellings include Visvesvaraya, Visweswaraiah, Vishweshwaraiah; Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಮೋಕ್ಷಗುಂಡಂ ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ್ವರಯ್ಯ; 15 September 1861 - 14 April 1962) was an eminent Indian engineer and statesman. He is a recipient of the Indian republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was also knighted by the British for his myriad contributions to the public good. Every year, 15 September is celebrated as the Engineer's Day in India in his memory and is a public holiday in some places, especially his birth state Karnataka.

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Wisdom

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Franchises

Franchises, also known as chain stores, are businesses operated under a special arrangement. Franchises are moderated industries that follow a set business model, which includes a name, an image, and a set of support services. In exchange for a set-up price and a monthly royalty payment, the franchiser, who owns the trademark of a company, licenses the brand to somebody. The buyer then opens the business and operates it, but the franchises always belong to the original creator. Examples of successful franchises include Gold's Gym® and Dunkin' Donuts®. For somebody considering franchises as a business investment, there are many advantages and disadvantages that should be kept in mind.

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Quote by Adlof Hitler

"If you win you need not to explain?... But if you lose you should not be there to explain" - Adolf Hitler

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Brand Equity

Brand equity refers to the marketing effects or outcomes that accrue to a product with its brand name compared with those that would accrue if the same product did not have the brand name. And, at the root of these marketing effects is consumers' knowledge. In other words, consumers' knowledge about a brand makes manufacturers/advertisers respond differently ...

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Light

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle Onassis

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FMCG

FMCGs, or Fast Moving Consumer Goods, are any type of commercial products that are produced at a low unit cost and tend to sell quickly. Typically, a lower amount of profit is made on each individual FMCG that is sold, but the constant demand helps to produce volume sales that help to create a healthy cumulative profit on all units sold within a given period. There are a number of retail products that fit this basic profile, with many of the items found in just about every home around the world.

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Friendship

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

- Buddha

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Patriot Day

In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on September 11 of each year, designated in memory of the nearly three thousand who died in the September 11, 2001, attacks. Most Americans refer to the day as "Nine-Eleven (9/11)," "September 11th," or some variation thereof.

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Change

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

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Econometrics

Econometrics is a discipline which combines mathematics with the study of economics to analyze information and work with mathematical models to explore scenarios and theoretical situations. The study of econometrics tends to be especially strong on statistics, with statistics being a powerful tool when it comes to analysis, and it requires comfort in the fields of both economics and mathematics. This academic pursuit was created in the 1930s, when numerous mathematicians started to explore mathematical relationships in the economic world. Today, it is offered at numerous educational institutions, and leading researchers in this field can be found all over the world.

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Humor

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

- Mark Twain

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PayPal™

PayPal™ is a business that utilizes e-commerce tools to enable individuals and businesses to securely process payments and transfer funds via the internet. It was created in 2000 when two companies, Confinity and X.com, merged to further develop their email payment programs. By 2002, the preference of eBay customers to use PayPal™ in lieu of eBay's in house payment processing program prompted the online auction giant to make an offer, and PayPal™ has been operating under the wing of eBay ever since.

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Art

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

- Aristotle

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Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle (Marathi: आशा भोसले) (born September 8, 1933) is an Indian singer. She is best known as a Bollywood playback singer, although she has a much wider repertoire. Her career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over 1000 Bollywood movies and sold many records. She is the sister of the equally accomplished Lata Mangeshkar.

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Science

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

- Linus Pauling

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Retrocession

The term “retrocession” is used in two very different ways. In the financial world, it refers to a situation in which one firm which specializes in reinsurance agrees to take on some of the risk for another reinsurance company. This is designed to reduce risk by spreading it out, reducing the liability burden for insurance companies. The term can also be used to refer to the ceding of land, usually involving the return of land to the original owner.

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Economy

"Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow."

- Calvin Coolidge, American 30th President of the US, 1872-1933

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Kautilya Arthasastra

Ethnobiological Information in Kautiliya

"The Kautiliya Arthasastra, a Sanskrit work of the c. 4th century B.C., is more known for its contents on politics and statecraft. But the book contains information and instructions about various other aspects of social life, including man's relationship with animals and plants. The present monograph of Prof. P. Sensarma is an excellent treatise in lucid English on the Ethnobiological Information contained in the Arthasastra. It deals with forests, plants, animals, animal husbandry including veterinary suggestions, agriculture medicinal-industrial commercial importance and application of flora and fauna, and the uses of plants and animals in biological and chemical warfare, besides weapon making and other military uses.

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Education

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

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Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, OM, FBA, (5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975), was an Indian philosopher and statesman.

Radhakrishnan was one of India's most acclaimed scholars of comparative religion and philosophy.

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Intelligence

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

- Albert Einstein

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William Lyons

Sir William Lyons, better known as "Mr. Jaguar" (September 4, 1901 – February 8, 1985) was, with fellow motorcycle enthusiast William Walmsley, the co-founder in 1922 of the Swallow Sidecar Company, maker of motorcycle sidecars, and which became Jaguar Cars Limited after the Second World War.

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Time

"You may delay, but time will not."

- Benjamin Franklin

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Six Sigma

Six sigma is a set of methodologies used by businesses to achieve extremely low failure rates in any process. The term six sigma derives from the mathematical use of sigma in statistics as a standard deviation. Six sigma is therefore six standard deviations.

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Change

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

- Mignon McLaughlin

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Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar

Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar (Malayalam: ചെമ്പൈ വൈദ്യനാഥ ഭാഗവതര്‍, Tamil: செம்பை வைத்தியநாத பாகவதர்) was an Indian carnatic music singer from the state of Kerala. Known by his village name Chembai, or simply as Bhagavatar, he was born to Anantha Bhagavatar and Parvati Ammal in 1895. Chembai was noted for his powerful voice and majestic style of singing. His first public performance was in 1904, when he was nine. He was a recipient of several titles and honours in his performing career of 70 years (1904-1974).

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