| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: So she only said:
"If you will promise not to worry a bit about me, I'll go to the Land
of Oz this very afternoon. And I'll make a promise, too; that you shall
both see me again before the day comes when you must leave this farm."
"The day isn't far away, now," her uncle sadly replied. "I did not
tell you of our trouble until I was obliged to, dear Dorothy, so the
evil time is near at hand. But if you are quite sure your fairy
friends will give you a home, it will be best for you to go to them,
as your aunt says."
That was why Dorothy went to her little room in the attic that
afternoon, taking with her a small dog named Toto. The dog had curly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: he will only know his fellow in art or wisdom, and no one else.
That is evident, he said.
But then what profit, Critias, I said, is there any longer in wisdom or
temperance which yet remains, if this is wisdom? If, indeed, as we were
supposing at first, the wise man had been able to distinguish what he knew
and did not know, and that he knew the one and did not know the other, and
to recognize a similar faculty of discernment in others, there would
certainly have been a great advantage in being wise; for then we should
never have made a mistake, but have passed through life the unerring guides
of ourselves and of those who are under us; and we should not have
attempted to do what we did not know, but we should have found out those
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: master give you permission to go?"
"Yes, sir. It's about a year now that he gave me money for a
theatre ticket every Saturday evening. He was very kind."
"Did you come into the house last night by the front door, or
through the garden?"
"Through the garden, sir. I walked down the Promenade from the
theatre."
"And you didn't notice anything - you saw no traces of footsteps?"
"No, sir. I didn't notice anything unusual. We shut the side
door, the garden door, every evening, also. It was closed
yesterday and I found the key - we've only got one key to the
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