| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: The nymphs with scorn beheld their foes:
When the defendant's counsel rose,
And, what no lawyer ever lacked,
With impudence owned all the fact.
But, what the gentlest heart would vex,
Laid all the fault on t'other sex.
That modern love is no such thing
As what those ancient poets sing;
A fire celestial, chaste, refined,
Conceived and kindled in the mind,
Which having found an equal flame,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: end to his search for the balance of the afternoon, as the
lion paced back and forth beneath him until dark.
Even after the beast had left, Clayton dared not descend
into the awful blackness beneath him, and so he spent a
terrifying and hideous night in the tree. The next morning
he returned to the beach, relinquishing the last hope of
succoring Jane Porter.
During the week that followed, Monsieur Thuran rapidly
regained his strength, lying in the shelter while Clayton
hunted food for both. The men never spoke except as
necessity demanded. Clayton now occupied the section of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: has already been pointed out, the two are so inextricably
interwoven in all military operations, that they cannot really be
considered apart. Here we simply have an expression, in
figurative language, of the almost infinite resource of a great
leader.]
7. There are not more than five musical notes, yet the
combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can
ever be heard.
8. There are not more than five primary colors (blue,
yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce
more hues than can ever been seen.
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