| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: it appeared he never was going to be lucky enough to run
against one. Often he fell, sometimes flat, at others upheld by
the willows. What made the work so hard was the fact that he
had only one arm to open a clump of close-growing stems and his
feet would catch or tangle in the narrow crotches, holding him
fast. He had to struggle desperately. It was as if the willows
were clutching hands, his enemies, fiendishly impeding his
progress. He tore his clothes on sharp branches and his flesh
suffered many a prick. But in a terrible earnestness he kept on
until he brought up hard against a cottonwood tree.
There he leaned and rested. He found himself as nearly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: perhaps of decisive importance; the Germans at any rate were
attempting to make it a cultivated flower. There was Opinion
flowering away at home, feeding rankly on rumour; Opinion in
neutral countries; Opinion getting into great tangles of
misunderstanding and incorrect valuation between the Allies. The
confidence and courage of the enemy; the amiability and
assistance of the neutral; the zeal, sacrifice, and serenity of
the home population; all were affected. The German cultivation
of opinion began long before the war; it is still the most
systematic and, because of the psychological ineptitude of the
Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French /Maison de
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: Factotum.' His rapid accumulation of wealth speaks volumes for
the constancy and activity of his services. One fails to see
when there could be a break in the current of his life at this
period of it, giving room or opportunity for legal or indeed any
other employment. 'In 1589,' says Knight, 'we have undeniable
evidence that he had not only a casual engagement, was not only a
salaried servant, as may players were, but was a shareholder in
the company of the Queen's players with other shareholders below
him on the list.' This (1589) would be within two years after
his arrival in London, which is placed by White and Halliwell-
Phillipps about the year 1587. The difficulty in supposing that,
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