| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose
governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a
situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to
join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk
together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places
will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: While these instants lasted, indeed, I had the extraordinary
chill of feeling that it was I who was the intruder.
It was as a wild protest against it that, actually addressing
her--"You terrible, miserable woman!"--I heard myself break
into a sound that, by the open door, rang through the long
passage and the empty house. She looked at me as if she
heard me, but I had recovered myself and cleared the air.
There was nothing in the room the next minute but the sunshine
and a sense that I must stay.
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I had so perfectly expected that the return of my pupils would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: of sunlight, I saw Juliette--Juliette and her husband. The pretty
little girl held her mother by the hand, and it was easy to see
that the lady had quickened her pace somewhat at the child's
ambiguous phrase. Taken aback by the sight of a total stranger,
who bowed with a tolerably awkward air, she looked at me with a
coolly courteous expression and an adorable pout, in which I, who
knew her secret, could read the full extent of her
disappointment. I sought, but sought in vain, to remember any of
the elegant phrases so laboriously prepared.
This momentary hesitation gave the lady's husband time to come
forward. Thoughts by the myriad flitted through my brain. To give
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