| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy: and the weak secure. . .and the peace preserved. . . .
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.
Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days. . .
nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps
in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
In your hands, my fellow citizens. . .more than mine. . .will rest the
final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded,
each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony
to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered
the call to service surround the globe. Now the trumpet summons us again. . .
not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need. . .not as a call to battle. . .
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: they halted and looked about. Then, of a sudden, one of them, a
woman, held her arms out toward me, and even at that great distance
I could see that her lips moved--it was Dejah Thoris, my ever
beautiful and ever youthful Princess of Helium.
With her were Thuvia of Ptarth, Phaidor, daughter of Matai Shang,
and Thurid, and the Father of Therns, and the three lesser therns
that had accompanied them.
Thurid shook his fist at me, and then two of the therns grasped
Dejah Thoris and Thuvia roughly by their arms and hurried them on.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: take a peep at it?'
'Yes, indeed,' cried Gideon. 'Just let me have a hammer.'
'Come down, and I'll show you where it is,' cried Julia. 'The
shelf is too high for me to reach'; and, opening the door of the
kitchen stair, she bade Gideon follow her. They found both the
hammer and a chisel; but Gideon was surprised to see no sign of a
servant. He also discovered that Miss Hazeltine had a very pretty
little foot and ankle; and the discovery embarrassed him so much
that he was glad to fall at once upon the packing-case.
He worked hard and earnestly, and dealt his blows with the
precision of a blacksmith; Julia the while standing silently by
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