| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: diligentissime conservavit suisque finibus atque oppidis uti iussit et
finitimis imperavit ut ab iniuria et maleficio se suosque prohiberent.
Atuatuci, de quibus supra diximus, cum omnibus copiis auxilio Nerviis
venirent, hac pugna nuntiata ex itinere domum reverterunt; cunctis oppidis
castellisque desertis sua omnia in unum oppidum egregie natura munitum
contulerunt. Quod cum ex omnibus in circuitu partibus altissimas rupes
deiectusque haberet, una ex parte leniter acclivis aditus in latitudinem
non amplius pedum CC relinquebatur; quem locum duplici altissimo muro
munierant; tum magni ponderis saxa et praeacutas trabes in muro
conlocabant. Ipsi erant ex Cimbris Teutonisque prognati, qui, cum iter in
provinciam nostram atque Italiam; facerent, iis impedimentis quae secum
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: declared purpose of the Union that it WILL Constitutionally
defend and maintain itself.
In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there
shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority.
The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess
the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect
the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects,
there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people
anywhere. Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality,
shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens
from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: didn't know anything. I believed what I was told, and I believed
my employer. His wife was ill in a hospital, and he said he
wanted to marry me when she died. Well, I liked him, and I was
sorry for him--and then the first thing I knew I had a baby. And
then the wife came back, and I was turned off. I had been a
fool, of course. If I had been in her place should have done
just what she did."
The girl was speaking in a cold, matter-of-fact voice, as of
things about which she was no longer able to suffer. "So, there
I was--on the street," she went on. "You have always had money,
a comfortable home, education, friends to help you--all that.
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