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"Someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that."
"We're working very hard to find out where this virus came from. To treat it and to vaccinate against it if we can. We don't know all of that yet, we just don't know. What we do know, is that in order to become sick you have to first come in contact with a sick person or something that they touched. In order to get scared, all you have to do is to come in contact with a rumor, or the television or the internet. I think what Mr. Krumwiede is uh... is spreading, is far more dangerous than the disease."
"You know where this comes from, shaking hands? It was a way of showing a stranger you weren't carrying a weapon in the old days. You offered your empty right hand to show that you meant no harm."
"The average person touches their face 2- or 3000 times a day. Three to five times every waking minute. In between, we're touching doorknobs, water fountains, elevator buttons, and each other. Those things become fomites."
"How fast it multiplies depends on a variety of factors. The incubation period, how long a person is contagious. Sometimes people can be contagious without even having symptoms."
"Somewhere in the world, the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat."
"It's a bad day to be a rhesus monkey."
"[about the virus] Godzilla, King Kong, Frankenstein all in one."
"Dr. Ian Sussman: [Disparagingly to Alan] Blogging is not writing. It's just graffiti with punctuation."
"Jory Emhoff: [Rhetorically] Why can't they invent a shot that keeps time from passing?"
"Nothing spreads like fear."
"Don't talk to anyone. Don't touch anyone."
"No one is immune to fear."
"Marion Cotillard - Dr. Leonora Orantes"
"Matt Damon - Mitch Emhoff"
"Laurence Fishburne - Dr. Ellis Cheever"
"Jude Law - Alan Krumwiede"
"Gwyneth Paltrow - Elizabeth "Beth" Emhoff"
"Kate Winslet - Dr. Erin Mears"
"Bryan Cranston - Rear Admiral Lyle Haggerty"
"Jennifer Ehle - Dr. Ally Hextall"
"Elliott Gould - Dr. Ian Sussman"
"Chin Han - Sun Feng"
"John Hawkes - Roger"
"Anna Jacoby-Heron - Jory Emhoff"
"Josie Ho - Li Fai's sister"
"Sanaa Lathan - Aubrey Cheever"
"Demetri Martin - Dr. David Eisenberg"
"Armin Rohde - Damian Leopold"
"Enrico Colantoni - Dennis French"
"Monique Gabriela Curnen - Lorraine Vasquez"
"Amr Waked - Rafik"
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.