| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death,
Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the
said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the
Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation
or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what
Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly,
until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services,
a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during
the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive
within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: his in support of the government. Your promise is conditional; whereas
my dismissal would be certain."
"But I have no competitors."
"You think so," said Antonin, "but some one is sure to turn up; you
may rely on that."
"Why doesn't my aunt come, when she knows I am on a gridiron!"
exclaimed Giguet, suddenly. "These three hours are like three years!"
His secret had escaped him and he now admitted to his friend that
Madame Marion had gone on his behalf to old Grevin with a formal
proposal for Cecile's hand.
The pair had now reached the Brienne road opposite to the Mulet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: above his adversary. To fire upwards from one aeroplane at
another is virtually impossible, at least with any degree of
accuracy. The marksman is at a hopeless disadvantage. If the
pilot be unaccompanied and entirely dependent upon his own
resources he cannot hope to fire vertically above him, for the
simple reason that in so doing he must relinquish control of his
machine. A rifle cannot possibly be sighted under such
conditions, inasmuch as it demands that the rifleman shall lean
back so as to obtain control of his weapon and to bring it to
bear upon his objective. Even if a long range Mauser or other
automatic pistol of the latest type be employed, two hands are
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