Saturday, November 3, 2012

Quotations Quiz


Goal 3 Culture & Communication


Outcome 4




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With a partner, research the internet to find the missing categories. Write the meaning of the quote in your own words from your own ideas:

Cultural Views

Speaker
Quote
Meaning
 
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
 
 
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
 
 
Sheik Zayed
 
Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
 
Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices.
 
 
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.
 
 
Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.
 
ML King Jr.
 
God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
 
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
 
Frank Borman
 
Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
 
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?
 
DD. Eisenhower
 
If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
 
Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?
 
 
 
 
For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.

 

 

 

 

 

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