| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: And we were frightened that we had lived
for twenty-one years and had never known
what joy is possible to men.
Then we said:
"Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest.
There is no danger in solitude. We have
no need of our brothers. Let us forget
their good and our evil, let us forget
all things save that we are together
and that there is joy as a bond between us.
Give us your hand. Look ahead. It is our
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: ride my best horse to death than injure a note of thy voice."
"My voice is, as ever, at the service of my royal patron," said
Blondel; "but your Majesty," he added, looking at some papers on
the table, "seems more importantly engaged, and the hour waxes
late."
"Not a whit, man, not a whit, my dearest Blondel. I did but
sketch an array of battle against the Saracens, a thing of a
moment, almost as soon done as the routing of them."
"Methinks, however," said Thomas de Vaux, "it were not unfit to
inquire what soldiers your Grace hath to array. I bring reports
on that subject from Ascalon."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: thought, peering sharply at them, and when she had leased them, so
short a time before, they were an upstanding crew. They did not
even raise their eyes as she dismounted from the buggy but Johnnie
turned toward her, carelessly dragging off his hat. His little
brown face was as hard as a nut as he greeted her.
"I don't like the look of the men," she said abruptly. "They don't
look well. Where's the other one?"
"Says he's sick," said Johnnie laconically. "He's in the bunk
house."
"What ails him?"
"Laziness, mostly."
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