| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: his utmost to outdo his opponent. It was hardly to be expected that Alfred
would carry off any of the laurels. Used as he had been to comparative
idleness he was no match for the hardy lads who had been brought up and
trained to a life of action, wherein a ten mile walk behind a plow, or a cord
of wood chopped in a day, were trifles. Alfred lost in the foot-race and the
sackrace, but by dint of exerting himself to the limit of his strength, he did
manage to take one fall out of the best wrestler. He was content to stop here,
and, throwing himself on the grass, endeavored to recover his breath. He felt
happier today than for some time past. Twice during the afternoon he had met
Betty's eyes and the look he encountered there made his heart stir with a
strange feeling of fear and hope. While he was ruminating on what had happened
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: almost sure to be led into hatred by the oppositions
and disappointments which he encounters in his
endeavors to bring happiness to the world. The more
certain he is of the purity of his motives and the truth
of his gospel, the more indignant he will become when
his teaching is rejected. Often he will successfully
achieve an attitude of philosophic tolerance as
regards the apathy of the masses, and even as regards
the whole-hearted opposition of professed defenders
of the status quo. But the men whom he finds it
impossible to forgive are those who profess the same desire
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: "I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles."
Yes. I do that: and I love, as the Nymphs loved of old, men who
have eyes to see my beauty, and ears to discern my song, and to
fit their own song to it, and tell how
"'I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,
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