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Five tankers—and the only time I had to put my hand in my pocket was to scratch my balls.

— Aristotle Onassis

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Source: Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978), p. 118 (p. 107 in the 1986 Summit Books edition)
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About his five tankers made in Sparrow Point, Baltimore, MD in 1948

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