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"There is still no wool that warms fresh, | the only one that can do it for now is vodka. (Dargen D'Amico)"
"Whoever visits the House of Lords and finds himself contemplating that august assembly full of respect cannot help but be struck by a voluminous and profane object that stands in front of the throne: a shapeless object, on which he will notice that, during the sessions plenaries of Parliament, the Lord Chancellor of England is seated. The object is a woolen cushion, and there is as much history in that wool as there is in the office of Lord Chancellor itself. In fact, it reminds a generation of cotton workers and metalworkers on what the greatness of England was founded: not on the delicate plant that comes from the most distant countries of the East and West to feed its manufacturing industry, and not on hard metal dug into his bowels, but on his wool which, generation after generation, grew on the backs of his black-faced sheep. (Eileen Power)"
"It is better to donate wool than sheep. (Stefano Guazzo)"
"The indignant deities have wool-shod feet. (Ambrose Theodosius Macrobius)"
"Go for wool and come back shorn."
"Being on the cutting edge."
"Goat wool issues."
"It is better to give wool than sheep. (Tuscan proverb)"
"Wool and thread, bitter who spins one. (Calabrian proverb)"
"A lot of shout, little wool. (Latvian proverb)"
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.