| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: desert, but rich soil upon which water acted like magic. There
was little grass to an acre, but there were millions of acres.
The climate was wonderful. Cattle flourished and ranchers
prospered.
The Rio Grande flowed almost due south along the western
boundary for a thousand miles, and then, weary of its course,
turned abruptly north, to make what was called the Big Bend.
The railroad, running west, cut across this bend, and all that
country bounded on the north by the railroad and on the south
by the river was as wild as the Staked Plains. It contained not
one settlement. Across the face of this Big Bend, as if to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: (1; 12).
The remainder of the test site personnel were positioned at the Base
Camp 16 kilometers south-southwest of ground zero, or on Compania
Hill, or at the guard posts. Important Government officials, such as
General Groves and Dr. Vannevar Bush, Director of the U.S. Office of
Scientific Research and Development, viewed the detonation from a
trench at the Base Camp. The Base Camp is depicted in figure 2-5.
The military police of Guard Posts 1 and 2 were instructed to be in
foxholes approximately five kilometers west and north, respectively,
from their posts. The military police of Guard Posts 3 and 4 were
instructed to be in foxholes south of Mockingbird Gap. A radiological
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: perhaps be thought a little irksome to be perpetually marching out,
when there is no war;[26] but all the same, I would have you call your
men together and impress upon them the need to train themselves, when
they ride into the country to their farms, or elsewhere, by leaving
the high road and galloping at a round pace on ground of every
description.[27] This method will be quite as beneficial to them as
the regular march out, and at the same time not produce the same sense
of tedium. You may find it useful also to remind them that the state
on her side is quite willing to expend a sum of nearly forty
talents[28] yearly, so that in the event of war she may not have to
look about for cavalry, but have a thoroughly efficient force to hand
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