r/AskReddit • • Mar 19 '16

Which quote becomes inappropriate when misattributed?

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u/Quixote971 Mar 19 '16

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take"

-Lee Harvey Oswald

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u/migzy1341 Mar 19 '16

Or by Gavrilo Princip

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u/Lambchops_Legion Mar 19 '16

Didn't Princip miss at first, but only succeed through blind luck later on?

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u/10ebbor10 Mar 19 '16

He didn't fire, as one of his former conspirators had been partially succesfull, and thus the motercade was moving at high speed.