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Famous quotes containing the words globe, mackay and/or cable:

    “Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so rich and varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “REST IN PEACE. THE MISTAKE SHALL NOT BE REPEATED.”
    —Anonymous. Quoted in The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, Alan L. Mackay (1977)

    “To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
    —Douglass Cross (b. 1920)