Elevation
- Highest point: Aconcagua, Mendoza, Argentina32°39′12″S 70°0′40″W / 32.65333°S 70.01111°W / -32.65333; -70.01111 (Aconcagua) at 6961 m
- Lowest point: Laguna del Carbón, Santa Cruz, Argentina 49°34′34″S 68°21′5″W / 49.57611°S 68.35139°W / -49.57611; -68.35139 (Laguna del Carbón) at −105 m
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Famous quotes containing the word elevation:
“All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation—the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”
—David Lloyd George (1863–1945)
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—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)