| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "I've been discussing with your friend the late hold-up on the
Transcontinental Pacific."
"Ah!" Leroy knew that the sheriff was serving notice on them of
his purpose to run down the bandits. Swiftly his mind swept up
the factors of the situation. Should he draw now and chance the
result, or wait for a more certain ending? He decided to wait,
moved by the consideration that even if he were victorious the
lawyers were sure to draw out of the fat-brained Scott the cause
of the quarrel.
"Well, that don't interest me any, though I suppose you have to
explain a heap how come they to hold you up and take your gun.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: at a cheap rate, easily gratifies his ambition by
submitting to poverty when he does not feel it,
and by boasting his contempt of riches when he has
already more than he enjoys. He who would shew
the extent of his views, and grandeur of his
conceptions, or discover his acquaintance with
splendour and magnificence, may talk like Cowley, of an
humble station and quiet obscurity, of the paucity
of nature's wants, and the inconveniences of superfluity,
and at last, like him, limit his desires to five
hundred pounds a year; a fortune, indeed, not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 119: 22 Take away from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept Thy testimonies.
Psalms 119: 23 Even though princes sit and talk against me, thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes.
Psalms 119: 24 Yea, Thy testimonies are my delight, they are my counsellors.
Psalms 119: 25 DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust; quicken Thou me according to Thy word.
Psalms 119: 26 I told of my ways, and Thou didst answer me; teach me Thy statutes.
Psalms 119: 27 Make me to understand the way of Thy precepts, that I may talk of Thy wondrous works.
Psalms 119: 28 My soul melteth away for heaviness; sustain me according unto Thy word.
Psalms 119: 29 Remove from me the way of falsehood; and grant me Thy law graciously.
Psalms 119: 30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; Thine ordinances have I set before me.
Psalms 119: 31 I cleave unto Thy testimonies; O LORD, put me not to shame.
Psalms 119: 32 I will run the way of Thy commandments, for Thou dost enlarge my heart.
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