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"Tapaturmaset piarut pittää yskällä sekotettaman. (Pöytyä, Varsinais-Suomi) (KRA)"
"Chapter of accidents."
"Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think."
"Accidents will occur in the best regulated families."
"To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?"
"Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws."
"Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall—am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet."
"At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental."
"By many a happy accident."
"ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws."
"I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother."
"Moving accidents by flood and field."
"A happy accident."
"The accident of an accident."
"While this wasn’t the first accident involving a self-driving car, it was the first time the car was found to be at fault. Yes, the car was at fault."
"The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book."
"History has a way of reducing individuals to flat, two-dimensional portraits. it is the enemy of subjectivity, which is why Stephen Dedalus called it "a nightmare from which I am trying to awake". If we think of Kierkegaard, of Nietzsche, of Hölderlin, we see them standing alone, outside of history. They are spotlighted by their intensity, and the background is all darkness. They intersect history, but are not a part of it. There is something anti-history about such men; they are not subject to time, accident and death, but their intensity is a protest against it. I have elsewhere called such men "Outsiders" because they attempt to stand outside history. which defines humanity on terms of limitation, not of possibility."
"Was der Ameise Vernunft mühsam zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.