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"4 InvisibleSun 20:54, 5 January 2008 (UTC) -->"
"3 Triviaa 04:28, 2 January 2009 (UTC)"
"2 InvisibleSun 23:15, 5 January 2009 (UTC)"
"4 Kalki 23:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC) -->"
"4 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:41, 4 January 2010 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 23:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. -->"
"3 Zarbon 14:06, 6 January 2009 (UTC) -->"
"2 Zarbon 14:06, 6 January 2009 (UTC)"
"3 bystander (talk) 03:10, 1 January 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4 -->"
"1 Zarbon 17:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC)"
"2 Triviaa 04:28, 2 January 2009 (UTC)"
"3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 5 January 2009 (UTC) -->"
"4 because I agree with Gibran here. It's true that my thought sees power in armies, cannons, battleships, submarines, aeroplanes, and poison gas. He forgot to mention atomic bombs, rocket launchers, tanks, and heat-seeking missiles...but yeah, he's right. He asserts furthermore that he finds power in reason, resolution, and truth. Not so sure how far that would go against an entire army, but it is a rather moral perspective painted by Gibran here, a dynamic comparison, if you will. Zarbon 04:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)"
"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 13:11, 3 January 2015 (UTC) 1 ♞☮♌︎Kalki·†·⚓⊙⚡ 17:29, 3 January 2012 (UTC) 2 Kalki 00:17, 6 January 2009 (UTC) I like this, but preferred a similar but more extensive passage from the same work, which has now been used (as QOTD for this date in 2011). but extended for further context."
"3 bystander (talk) 03:10, 1 January 2013 (UTC) -->"
"3 because planning to do something and actually doing it are two different things. Zarbon 04:53, 1 May 2008 (UTC)"
"2 Kalki 00:17, 6 January 2009 (UTC)"
"3 Zarbon 07:06, 12 December 2008 (UTC)"
"2 Zarbon 07:06, 12 December 2008 (UTC)"
"3 Kalki 00:17, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4."
"1 Zarbon 14:06, 6 January 2009 (UTC)"
"3 Kalki 00:17, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4."
"3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:02, 9 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4."
"3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:19, 9 September 2010 (UTC)"
"3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 07:29, 4 January 2011 (UTC)"
"No particular reason for suggesting this quote, other than Thompson is my favorite writer and Jan 6th is my birthday. Feel free to ignore it on that basis. - 20:45, 16 May 2011 (UTC)"
"2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:01, 16 May 2011 (UTC) though this or other quotes of Thompson suggested on his birthdate of 18 July might receive higher rankings there."
"3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 5 January 2017 (UTC)"
"3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs) 00:47, 23 August 2018 (UTC)"
"3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 6 January 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4."
"3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:36, 1 April 2025 (UTC)"
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.