| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: computers we used then didn't have lower case at all.
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The United States Bill of Rights.
The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Passed by Congress September 25, 1789
Ratified December 15, 1791
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: utterance when he spoke, and watched him with unwearing
interest when he was silent. And yet his feeling was not
clear; in the partial wreck of his mind, which was leaning to
decay, some after-thought was strongly present. As he gazed
in Mr. Archer's face a sudden brightness would kindle in his
rheumy eyes, his eye-brows would lift as with a sudden
thought, his mouth would open as though to speak, and close
again on silence. Once or twice he even called Mr. Archer
mysteriously forth into the dark courtyard, took him by the
button, and laid a demonstrative finger on his chest; but
there his ideas or his courage failed him; he would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: it was then, as they filed down our gangway, that I received the
inward monition that no sailing within the meaning of our
charter-party would ever take place.
It must be said that in less than three weeks a move took place.
When we first arrived we had been taken up with much ceremony
well towards the centre of the town, and, all the street corners
being placarded with the tricolour posters announcing the birth
of our company, the petit bourgeois with his wife and family made
a Sunday holiday from the inspection of the ship. I was always
in evidence in my best uniform to give information as though I
had been a Cook's tourists' interpreter, while our quarter-
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