| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln: what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before us. . .that from these honored dead we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. . .
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . .
that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . .
and that government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . .
shall not perish from this earth.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: near the ground, he says: "A storm to-morrow." It is what makes an Indian at
home in any wilderness. The clouds may hide the guiding star; the northing may
be lost; there may be no moss on the trees, or difference in their bark; the
ridges may be flat or lost altogether, and there may be no water-courses; yet
the Indian brave always goes for his teepee, straight as a crow flies. It was
this voice which rightly bade Wetzel, when he was baffled by an Indian's trail
fading among the rocks, to cross, or circle, or advance in the direction taken
by his wily foe.
Joe had practiced trailing deer and other hoofed game, until he was true as a
hound. Then he began to perfect himself in the art of following a human being
through the forest. Except a few old Indian trails, which the rain had half
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: However, the explanation is not really difficult to find. It is
simply this. Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and
exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no
class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to
be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve
them. What is said by great employers of labour against agitators
is unquestionably true. Agitators are a set of interfering,
meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of
the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That
is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without
them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards
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