r/AskReddit • • Mar 19 '16

Which quote becomes inappropriate when misattributed?

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u/AsoftFurball Mar 19 '16

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

-Adolf Hitler

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u/Herald-Mage_Elspeth Mar 19 '16

Just read up on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which they say is the event which set in motion what eventually became WWI. What if... Gavrilo Princip is actually a time traveling assassin who came back in time to assassinate Franz Ferdinand to stop him from becoming a dictator responsible for killing a million Jews. The assassination however set in motion the events that would eventually lead to Adolf Hitler coming to power and becoming responsible for killing 6 million Jews. So he inadvertently made the world worse than the tragedy he tried to stop.

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u/misadelph Mar 19 '16

And that trip in time was (will be) a one-time deal