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"You know... When my father died, I spent a lot of time thinking maybe I wasn't such a great son. It seemed to me like I could have listened to him a little more, spent some more time with him... I felt so guilty, you know, like he did everything for me, and I didn't do anything for him. Then one day it occurred to me... that I did the greatest thing of all for him just before he died: I was there with him, and I held his hand, and I said goodbye."
"[repeating Kreese's words] Mercy is for the weak. We do not train to be merciful here. A man face you he is enemy. Enemy deserve no mercy."
"Aha... here are the two rules of Miyagi-Ryu Karate. Rule number one: "Karate for defense only". Rule number two: "First learn rule number one"."
"Daniel-san, never put passion before principle. Even if win, you lose."
"Six hundred dollars say he break all six."
"[to Daniel LaRusso] When you feel life out of focus, always return to basic of life...breathing, no breath no life."
"Out of respect for my teacher, I give you three days to mourn. When finish, I come back. You prepare to join him."
"Miyagi, I wait long time for this. No tricks tonight, or tomorrow, everything gone. Their homes. Their church. Everything...GONE!"
"Now... to you, I am dead."
"The story continues..."
"One more lesson to share. The price of honor. The glory of friendship. And the way you must fight when only the winner survives."
"Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso"
"Pat Morita - Mr. Nariyoshi Miyagi"
"Danny Kamekona - Sato"
"Yuji Okumoto - Chozen"
"Tamlyn Tomita - Kum"
"Martin Kove - John Kreese"
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.