| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: to the others.
"Comrades," he said, "I trust that every animal here appreciates the
sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon
himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the
contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more
firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only
too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you
might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball, with his moonshine of
windmills--Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal?"
"He fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed," said somebody.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: number of black objects.
"Are those men?--up the masts?" she cried.
She set Prince in motion toward the beach.
At the foot of the bluff the plank road ran out into the deep sand.
Through this the phaeton made its way heavily. The fine particles
were blown in the air like a spray, mingling with the spume from the
lake, stinging Carroll's face like so many needles. Already the
beach was strewn with pieces of wreckage, some of it cast high above
the wash, others still thrown up and sucked back by each wave,
others again rising and falling in the billows. This wreckage
constituted a miscellaneous jumble, although most of it was lumber
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: had become more violent.
'Well, this is weather!' thought Vasili Andreevich. 'Perhaps
we may not get there after all. But there is nothing to be
done. Business! Besides, we have got ready, our host's horse
has been harnessed, and we'll get there with God's help!'
Their aged host also thought they ought not to go, but he had
already tried to persuade them to stay and had not been
listened to.
'It's no use asking them again. Maybe my age makes me timid.
They'll get there all right, and at least we shall get to bed
in good time and without any fuss,' he thought.
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