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""Hell is just a frame of mind": widely claimed on the internet to be a quotation from Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. The demon Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus does, however, imply a similar idea by saying that losing his place in heaven makes him experience hell, by comparison, wherever he is:"
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious"
""I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.", Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (played by Judy Garland)"
""In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things, charity" (In necessariis unitas, in non-necessariis [or, dubiis] libertas, in utrisque [or, omnibus] caritas)."
""A stupid person's idea of a clever person", Julie Burchill of Stephen Fry."
""Not many people know that.", Michael Caine, British actor."
""Nice guys finish last." Leo Durocher (1906ā1991), US baseball manager."
""The two most common elements in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity." Harlan Ellison (born May 27, 1934), US author."
""I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" Voltaire"
""To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize." Voltaire"
""If I can't dance I don't want to be in [or a part of] your revolution." (also: "If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution")"
"Just the facts, ma'am."
"We trained hard... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."
""Elementary, my dear Watson" ā Sherlock Holmes"
"The end justifies the means."
"There's a sucker born every minute."
"On the whole, I would rather be in Philadelphia."
"I invented the internet."
"Theirs but to do or die!"
"Far from the maddening crowd"
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us."
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
"Well, that escalated quickly."
"Please, Sir, can I have some more?"
"The harder he works, the luckier he gets."
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 99, wear sunscreen."
"If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain."
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
"I will return and I will be millions."
"I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!"
"Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing."
"I cannot allow your ignorance, however great, to take precedence over my knowledge, however small."
"Good things come to those who wait."
"I can't believe Nixon won. I don't know anyone who voted for him."
"We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like."
"The British are coming"
"The Shaggs are better than the Beatles."
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. (Samuel Goldwyn)"
"Don't worry, be happy."
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning."
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
"Phenomenon (do, doo, do-do-doo)"
"Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world; he isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles."
"A house that has a library in it has a soul."
"Hell is the truth seen too late."
"No rest for the wicked."
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
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.