| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: Day and night he is brooding on your wrongs--I should say your rights--
that is to say your wrongs--no, I mean your rights--"
("Don't talk no more!" growled the man under the window.
"You're making a mess of it!") At this moment the Sub-Warden entered
the saloon. He was a thin man, with a mean and crafty face, and a
greenish-yellow complexion; and he crossed the room very slowly,
looking suspiciously about him as if be thought there might be a
savage dog hidden somewhere. "Bravo!" he cried, patting the Chancellor
on the back. "You did that speech very well indeed.
Why, you're a born orator, man!"
"Oh, that's nothing! the Chancellor replied, modestly, with downcast
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the
South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain
of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to
transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful
symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work
together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail
together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will
be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: which Captain Dalgetty handed to him, and, throwing it with
contempt upon a table, asked those around him what he deserved
who came as the avowed envoy and agent of malignant traitors, in
arms against the state?
"A high gallows and a short shrift," was the ready answer of one
of the bystanders.
"I will crave of that honourable cavalier who hath last spoken,"
said Dalgetty, "to be less hasty in forming his conclusions, and
also of your lordship to be cautelous in adopting the same, in
respect such threats are to be held out only to base bisognos,
and not to men of spirit and action, who are bound to peril
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