| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: And all because his forefathers had not the power to imagine
something beyond what they actually saw. The very essence of the
force of imagination lies in its ability to change a man's habitat
for him. Without it, man would forever have remained, not a mollusk,
to be sure, but an animal simply. A plant cannot change its place,
an animal cannot alter its conditions of existence except within
very narrow bounds; man is free in the sense nothing else in the
world is.
What is true of individuals has been true of races. The most
imaginative races have proved the greatest factors in the world's
advance.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: Chiricahuas give one yell and skipped. It was surely a funny
sight, after they got aboard their war ponies, to see them trying
to dig out on horses too tired to trot.
I didn't stop to get all the laughs, though. In fact, I give one
jump off that ledge, and I lit a-running. A quarter-hoss
couldn't have beat me to that shack. There I grabbed old
Meat-in-the-pot and made a climb for the tall country, aiming to
wait around until dark, and then to pull out for Benson. Johnny
Hooper wasn't expected till next day, which was lucky. From
where I lay I could see the Apaches camped out beyond my
draw, and I didn't doubt they'd visited the place. Along about
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: "Find that rather for gross impertinence and disabuse your mind.
What do I want of money?"
"Oh that's another question!"
Pemberton wavered - he was drawn in different ways. The severely
correct thing would have been to tell the boy that such a matter
was none of his business and bid him go on with his lines. But
they were really too intimate for that; it was not the way he was
in the habit of treating him; there had been no reason it should
be. On the other hand Morgan had quite lighted on the truth - he
really shouldn't be able to keep it up much longer; therefore why
not let him know one's real motive for forsaking him? At the same
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