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"Help you? But I am a nobleman, it very uncommon for me to help commoners."
"When we spoke of "defeeting" King George, that's not exactly what we meant."
"[sweet voice] My dear ACME agents, I know you're only doing your job, [modulated voice] but you won't keep me locked up for long, losers!"
"You may have taken the wind out of this doctor's sail, but I doubt if you'll put Carmen in jail!"
"Dream on, detectives. You've got me under control for now, but there's a meltdown coming soon and her name is Carmen Sandiego."
"You caught up with me again, agents! But you'll never accelerate fast enough for a collision with Carmen!"
"Thomas Edison: Someone really needs to invent a more convenient store - open twenty-four hours a day."
"Ivan Idea: Wow, Edison really does think ahead of his time!"
"Hello, this is Joe. What? They want to borrow thread?! It's the middle of the night!! Listen close, guard, do NOT give those rascals a spool of thread! Tell 'em to come back in the morning when we're open!"
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.