| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: the family that afternoon, because
Benjamin and Flopsy had gone out.
The little rabbit-babies were just old
enough to open their blue eyes and
kick. They lay in a fluffy bed of
rabbit wool and hay, in a shallow
burrow, separate from the main
rabbit hole. To tell the truth--old
Mr. Bouncer had forgotten them.
He sat in the sun, and conversed
cordially with Tommy Brock, who
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the niche, he was suddenly startled to hear, in tones of
terror and in a woman's voice, the words: "O God, be merci-
ful" from just beyond the hangings.
Here was no time for cautious investigation and, not even
waiting to find the aperture and part the hangings, but with
one sweep of a brawny hand dragging them from their sup-
port, the ape-man leaped from the niche into the alcove.
At the sound of his entry the maniac looked up, and as he
saw at first only a man in the uniform of his father's soldiers,
he shrieked forth an angry order, but at the second glance,
which revealed the face of the newcomer, the madman leaped
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy: And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forbears fought
are still at issue around the globe. . .the belief that the rights of man
come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
Let the word go forth from this time and place. . .to friend and foe alike. . .
that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans. . .
born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace,
proud of our ancient heritage. . .and unwilling to witness or permit the slow
undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed,
and to which we are committed today. . .at home and around the world.
Let every nation know. . .whether it wishes us well or ill. . .
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