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"End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good, sometimes bad."
"What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world."
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'"
"In omnibus autem negotiis priusquam adgrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio diligens."
"Like the legend of the Phoenix All ends with beginnings What keeps the planets spinning (uh) The force from the beginning."
"La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte."
"A bad beginning makes a bad ending."
"Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil."
"All beginnings are very troublesome things."
"Nothing great has great beginnings."
"The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. When this sensation is lacking—as when one is in prison, or ill, or stupid, or when living has become a habit—one might as well be dead."
"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."
"The true beginning of our end."
"Incipe; dimidium facti est cœpisse. Supersit Dimidium: rursum hoc incipe, et efficies."
"Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars."
"Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui coûte à vaincre la pudeur."
"Omnium rerum principia parva sunt."
"Dimidium facti qui cœpit habet."
"Cœpisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt."
"Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur, Cum mala per longas convaluere moras."
"Deficit omne quod nascitur."
"Quidquid cœpit, et desinit."
"C'est le commencement de la fin."
"Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde, Est celui dont dépend le reste de nos jours."
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.