“If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!”

— Yuri Gagarin

Statement of April 1961, as quoted in Warrior of Light : The Life of Nicholas Roerich : Artist, Himalayan explorer and visionary (2002) by Colleen Messina, p. 46

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