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"Things in Arizona don't just die; they bake and fry in the heat until there is nothing left."
"Crime is down in Arizona."
"You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up mass transit in the dictionary."
"Mother Jones made an appearance as well, calling the action "one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the labor movement.""
"Arizona puts the heat up on you; I should warn you."
"You know you're an Arizona native when you think Taco Bell is the local phone company."
"The trip [...] across Arizona [is] just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there. I like Arizona."
"There's something about Tucson, about Arizona, that's so corrupt. The land is very beautiful. There's nothing wrong with the earth. New Mexico is crooked, but Arizona is totally corrupt."
"Why are the feds worried about me clocking on this corner, when there's politicians out here getting popped in Arizona?"
"You know you're an Arizona native when you run to the window just to watch a dust storm."
"Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher. It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets."
"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona."
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.