| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "I wonder if the beasts will attack us?" asked Kiki.
"I'm a Nome, and immortal, so nothing can hurt me," replied Ruggedo.
"I was born in the Land of Oz, so nothing can hurt me," said Kiki.
"But, in order to carry out our plans, we must win the favor of all
the animals of the forest."
"Then what shall we do?" asked Kiki.
"Let us mix the shapes of several beasts, so we will not look like
any one of them," proposed the wily old Nome. "Let us have the heads
of lions, the bodies of monkeys, the wings of eagles and the tails of
wild asses, with knobs of gold on the end of them instead of bunches
of hair."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: frowning determinedly].
MRS WARREN [turning on him sharply] What have you got to do with
it, pray?
FRANK [with his prettiest lyrical cadence] Precisely what I was
going to ask, myself, in my own graceful fashion.
CROFTS [to Mrs Warren] I suppose you dont want to marry the girl
to a man younger than herself and without either a profession or
twopence to keep her on. Ask Sam, if you dont believe me. [To
the parson] How much more money are you going to give him?
REV. S. Not another penny. He has had his patrimony; and he
spent the last of it in July. [Mrs Warren's face falls].
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: would also be found highly untenable in practice.
It will, however, require some rough experiments and rougher
catastrophes, before the generality of persons will be convinced
that no law concerning anything--least of all concerning land, for
either holding or dividing it, or renting it high, or renting it
low--would be of the smallest ultimate use to the people, so long as
the general contest for life, and for the means of life, remains one
of mere brutal competition. That contest, in an unprincipled
nation, will take one deadly form or another, whatever laws you make
against it. For instance, it would be an entirely wholesome law for
England, if it could be carried, that maximum limits should be
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