| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: problems, which is a condition of further progress.
"The second period (it will be difficult to say now whether it
will be measured in months or years, since that depends on
many factors beginning with the international
situation and ending with the unanimity or the lack of it in
our own party) will be a period occupied in the building of
machines in the interest of transport, and the getting of raw
materials and provisions.
"The third period will be occupied in building machinery,
with a view to the production of articles in general demand,
and, finally, the fourth period will be that in which we are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: decline to take him."
"You'll hear more about him in spite of yourself. I can't, no, I
really can't resist the impression that he's a big man." I was
already mastering--to my shame perhaps be it said--just the tone my
old friend least liked.
"It's doubtless only a trifle," he returned, "but you haven't
happened to mention what his reputation's to rest on."
"Why on what I began by boring you with--his extraordinary mind."
"As exhibited in his writings?"
"Possibly in his writings, but certainly in his talk, which is far
and away the richest I ever listened to."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: His nuntiis litterisque commotus Caesar duas legiones in citeriore
Gallia novas conscripsit et inita aestate in ulteriorem Galliam qui
deduceret Q. Pedium legatum misit. Ipse, cum primum pabuli copia esse
inciperet, ad exercitum venit. Dat negotium Senonibus reliquisque Gallis
qui finitimi Belgis erant uti ea quae apud eos gerantur cognoscant seque
de his rebus certiorem faciant. Hi constanter omnes nuntiaverunt manus
cogi, exercitum in unum locum conduci. Tum vero dubitandum non
existimavit quin ad eos proficisceretur. Re frumentaria provisa castra
movet diebusque circiter XV ad fines Belgarum pervenit.
Eo cum de improviso celeriusque omnium opinione venisset, Remi, qui
proximi Galliae ex Belgis sunt, ad eum legatos Iccium et Andebrogium,
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