| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: sticking out."
"Why, they're my boots. I claimed them first," said Tony,
beginning to scowl at his brother; and Melanie, fluttering with
fear at the possibility of one of the famous Fontaine quarrels,
interposed and made peace.
"I had a full beard to show you girls," said Ashley, ruefully
rubbing his face where half-healed razor nicks still showed. "It
was a beautiful beard and if I do say it myself, neither Jeb Stuart
nor Nathan Bedford Forrest had a handsomer one. But when we got to
Richmond, those two scoundrels," indicating the Fontaines, "decided
that as they were shaving their beards, mine should come off too.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: servants, arms, and equipage, and who neither can, nor will, go
to warfare upon his own charges."
Anderson, the domestic who had before spoken now respectfully
addressed his master.--"I think, my lord," he said, "that, under
your lordship's favour, I could say something to remove Captain
Dalgetty's second objection also. He asks us where we are to
collect our pay; now, in my poor mind, the resources are as open
to us as to the Covenanters. They tax the country according to
their pleasure, and dilapidate the estates of the King's friends;
now, were we once in the Lowlands, with our Highlanders and our
Irish at our backs, and our swords in our hands, we can find many
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: were right then, we are wrong now.
EUTHYPHRO: One of the two must be true.
SOCRATES: Then we must begin again and ask, What is piety? That is an
enquiry which I shall never be weary of pursuing as far as in me lies; and
I entreat you not to scorn me, but to apply your mind to the utmost, and
tell me the truth. For, if any man knows, you are he; and therefore I must
detain you, like Proteus, until you tell. If you had not certainly known
the nature of piety and impiety, I am confident that you would never, on
behalf of a serf, have charged your aged father with murder. You would not
have run such a risk of doing wrong in the sight of the gods, and you would
have had too much respect for the opinions of men. I am sure, therefore,
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