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[–]smbell 18 points19 points ago

Except, as I understand it, he never said that. I like it, but as much as we deal with made up quotes, I just can't support making up more.

[–]FiercelyFuzzy 3 points4 points ago

You're correct, he most certainly never said that. Sad to say that I used it for my background for the longest time just because it looked neat, full well knowing he didn't say it.

[–]AnUncomfortablePanda[S] 4 points5 points ago

You're right actually. I just looked it up and they said that the Soviet Union's anti-religion was quoted as saying, "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any God there," and there are no records of a conversation taking place of him actually saying anything like this. He himself was a fairly strong person in the Orthodox church it appears. Figures!

[–]ChrisK989 2 points3 points ago

Something else he said though is quit a fitting quote to this picture as well.

"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!" http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

[–]the_living 2 points3 points ago

Obligatory statement of misquotation.

[–]oD3 2 points3 points ago

If its a picture of a nebula with white text, it's been posted here before.

[–]pacificcloud 1 point2 points ago

reminds me of brand new-deja entendu

[–]awesomebbq 0 points1 point ago

I'm pretty sure he never said that

[–]drunkenwaffle -1 points0 points ago

"I'm sure it's been posted before..." Then why the fuck did you post it? This is one of the most common quotes posted here and it's fake anyway.

[–]bub166 1 point2 points ago

Do you see how fast the subscriptions are increasing? Even if 90 percent of all of the newcomers happened to only be auto-subscribers, that's still quite a bit of new people each day.

Although your second point is very much valid. It is unlikely that he ever said that.

[–]drunkenwaffle -1 points0 points ago

Yes but the fact he said he knew it was a repost, put it in the title and then posted it is just admitting that it's a repost.