| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite
for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the
Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a citizen of the United States,
and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which
he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among
the several States which may be included within this Union,
according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined
by adding to the whole number of free Persons, including those
bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: show fight, Knappe had now three ships and could defy or sink him
without danger. Many small circumstances moved him in the same
direction. The looting of German plantations continued; the whole
force of Mataafa was to a large extent subsisted from the crops of
Vailele; and armed men were to be seen openly plundering bananas,
bread-fruit, and cocoa-nuts under the walls of the plantation
building. On the night of the 13th the consulate stable had been
broken into and a horse removed. On the 16th there was a riot in
Apia between half-castes and sailors from the new ship OLGA, each
side claiming that the other was the worse of drink, both (for a
wager) justly. The multiplication of flags and little neutral
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: bent to flick a caterpillar from the honey-suckle; then, as they
turned indoors, "If we mean to go on the yacht next Sunday," she
suggested, "oughtn't you to let Mr. Flamel know?"
Glennard's exasperation deflected suddenly. "Of course I shall
let him know. You always seem to imply that I'm going to do
something rude to Flamel."
The words reverberated through her silence; she had a way of thus
leaving one space in which to contemplate one's folly at arm's
length. Glennard turned on his heel and went upstairs. As he
dropped into a chair before his dressing-table he said to himself
that in the last hour he had sounded the depths of his humiliation
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