"Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are."

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Source : Ashwin Sanghi (2010). “Chanakya's Chant”, p.62, Westland

Ashwin Sanghi

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.”
“In true budo there is no enemy or opponent. True budo is to become one with the universe, not train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to mankind around the world.”
“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.”
“Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.”
“Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.”
“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

Source : Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.276, University of Toronto Press
“This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.”

Source : Vine Deloria, Jr., James Treat (2013). “For This Land: Writings on Religion in America”, p.8, Routledge
“It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.”

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