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"It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird."
"He was surrounded to the last by admiring friends; and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday 13th of November he passed away."
"Robert Langdon: By the 1300s, the Templars had grown too powerful. Too threatening. So the Vatican issued secret orders to be opened simultaneously all across Europe. The Pope had declared the Knights Templar Satan worshipers and said God had charged him with cleansing the earth of these heretics. The plan went off like clockwork. The Templars were all but exterminated. The date was October 13th, 1307. A Friday. Sophie Neveu: Friday the 13th..."
"Margaret: You all know what day this is. Friday the 13th. Frank: She's right, and--nah, doesn't mean a thing. Hawkeye: Don't say that, Frank. I once spent Friday the 13th in a haunted house with a friend. I was never more frightened in my life. Potter: You see a ghost? Hawkeye: No, her husband materialized out of nowhere."
"Tyler: Yeah. Don't look at October! But look at tomorrow's date! It's Friday the 13th! The unluckiest date of all! If you walk under a ladder or past a black cat, terrible things will happen! George: Oh, come on Tyler! Ladders and black cats! What else do we avoid on this Friday the 13th? Tyler: Well, if you spill salt, you should always throw a bit over your shoulder! Janet: Don't put new shoes on the table, avoid walking on the cracks in the pavement, that sort of thing. Tyler: Don't make woodland animals out of marzipan. Janet: What? Tyler: Don't dance on linoleum, don't throw hedge clippings at sparrows, don't whistle within six foot of a carpet warehouse, and at all costs whatever else happens, don't play the trombone on a bus. Cassie: I told you to hide!"
"Ruby: Hmm, odd. Today is Friday, maybe it's not just any Friday. Misery: That doesn't explain why I'm suddenly Mother Nature's new best friend. (Ruby looks at the calendar, July 13 is circled.) Ruby: I was right. Today is Friday the 13th. Misety: Wait. I remember my nanna telling me a story about this date. (Misery is remembering the story 'till the end) Ruby: I get it. Bad luck is normal for you, Misery. So Friday the 13th is actually a good luck day for you. Poe: Plus, the full Moon has been out all day. Perhaps that magnifies the effect. (The Moon blinks) Ruby: It's a chance for you to experience a whole new side of life, Misery. One that isn't fraught with disaster. (Poe screams before dodging a falling furniture) Ruby: The rest of us will just haave to stand on our toes."
"Some say the Jersey Devil was born on the 13th day of the 13th month of the 13th year of the 13th century on Friday the 13th, and he was the 13th baby of the 13th witch in the 13th coven."
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.