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Clan Macrae Links - Clan Macrae home page.
Eilean Donan Castle - Scotland's Most Romantic Castle - Ancestral home of the Clan MacRae, this castle sits at the point where three Scottish Lochs meet.
McRae Clan - An informal family view of the clan from one branch in California. Includes detailed family history, written in 1899.
About the Macrae Clan - Direct from Scotland - About the history of the MacRae Clan's forefathers, including a scenic description of the ancient family lands in Scotland.
Clan MacRae - Provides a history, complete with motto, tartan, clan crest, and location. This site contains info on all the major Scottish Clans and family names and significant events in Scottish history.
Clan MacRae Society of North America - Official pages containing details of the clan's history, family crest, forthcoming events, links, contact details and membership information.
Murl McRae's Home Page - Personal page containing pictures and links of interest to Clan MacRae members, also lists Scottish related links, contains a guest book and e-mail contact.
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(Josef Stalin) MacRae To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos MacRae The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) MacRae [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha MacRae I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Virtue is not left to stand alone. 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