Nathanael Greene Herreshoff - Herreshoff America's Cup Designs

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“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain—at least in a poor country like Russia—and his vanity begins to swell out like his tyres. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

“I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.”
—Cynthia Paine (b. 1934)

“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven. The fated sky
Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)