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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
"The original answer defines certain conditions, [...] Anything else is a different question."
"Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses."
"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth."
"If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."
"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
"A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does."
"What women want is what men want. They want respect."
"What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from.""
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.