| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: thereby that he only yielded to force.
It was a real miracle that on that day he escaped from the
doom intended for him.
John de Witt derived no advantage from his ready compliance
with the wishes of his fellow citizens. Only a few days
after, an attempt was made to stab him, in which he was
severely although not mortally wounded.
This by no means suited the views of the Orange faction. The
life of the two brothers being a constant obstacle to their
plans, they changed their tactics, and tried to obtain by
calumny what they had not been able to effect by the aid of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: Sally's reckless retort: "What of it? We can afford it."
Before the couple went to bed, that first night that they were rich,
they had decided that they must celebrate. They must give a party--
that was the idea. But how to explain it--to the daughters and
the neighbors? They could not expose the fact that they were rich.
Sally was willing, even anxious, to do it; but Aleck kept her head
and would not allow it. She said that although the money was as
good as in, it would be as well to wait until it was actually in.
On that policy she took her stand, and would not budge.
The great secret must be kept, she said--kept from the daughters and
everybody else.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: determine by the colour of his eyes and the shape and strength of his legs,
whether a lad should be an astronomer or an engraver. Those physical
differences among mankind which divide races and nations--not merely those
differences, enormously greater as they are generally, than any physical
differences between male and female of the same race, which divide the Jew
and the Swede, the Japanese and the Englishman, but even those subtle
physical differences which divide closely allied races such as the English
and German--often appear to be allied with certain subtle differences in
intellectual aptitudes. Yet even with regard to these differences, it is
almost impossible to determine scientifically in how far they are the
result of national traditions, environment, and education, and in how far
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