Quotations Quiz
Goal 3 Culture & Communication
Outcome 4
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
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Speaker
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Quote
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Meaning
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Dwight D.
Eisenhower
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon
loses both.
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A
person who chooses to only benefit from privileges as soon he will lose his
principles.
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All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
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Every society is linked with other societies
in the world like a network where we share a common destiny and it is so
difficult for a society to be isolated from other societies.
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Sheik Zayed
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”He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his
present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.”
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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.
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Amin Maalouf
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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.
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we
should integrate our loyalties to avoid conflict
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Mohandas Gandhi
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A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its
people.
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It is
so hard changing people culture.
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Amin
Maalouf
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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.
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The
main point of respecting traditions is by giving fundamental rights for men
and women equally
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ML King Jr.
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I have a
dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
character.
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God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for
everyone.
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Desmond
Tutu
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human
together.
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We should
care for each other and cooperate together to live peacefully
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Frank Borman
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When
you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth, all those differences
and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to
get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we
learn to live together like decent people.
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Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get
along decently.
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Pablo Casals
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The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should
it stop at the border?
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We should
love everything in the world everyone in the world every country in the
world.
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DD. Eisenhower
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No people
on the earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity
shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
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If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
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Sheikh
Zayed
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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?
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The only
way for end the war between people and states is reconciliation.
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Never
discriminate people by the color of their skin but by their moral behavior
and character
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Amin
Maalouf
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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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We should live
together friendly and sharing love with each other. When we see bad action
from somebody we should hate only the bad action not the person
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