| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: ordinary are still unknown; and the circumstances upon which they depend
are almost always so special and minute as to be highly difficult to
detect. But in this I have adopted the following order: first, I have
essayed to find in general the principles, or first causes of all that is
or can be in the world, without taking into consideration for this end
anything but God himself who has created it, and without educing them from
any other source than from certain germs of truths naturally existing in
our minds In the second place, I examined what were the first and most
ordinary effects that could be deduced from these causes; and it appears
to me that, in this way, I have found heavens, stars, an earth, and even
on the earth water, air, fire, minerals, and some other things of this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: said, "Davis is the man for the job," and so I got their vote as
well as the vote of the workers, and I was elected to that higher
office by a great majority.
CHAPTER XLIII
FROM TIN WORKER TO SMALL CAPITALIST
During my term as county recorder at Anderson, Indiana, I saved
money. I was unmarried and had no dissipations but books, and
books cost little. I had lent money to several fellows who wanted
to get a business education. By the year 1906, or ten years after
I quit the mill, the money I had lent to men for their education
in business colleges had all come back to me with interest. All
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: legs are swollen."
Agathe took a pair of scissors. When she had cut down the boots, which
in those days were worn outside the clinging trousers, ten pieces of
gold rolled on the floor.
"There it is,--her money," murmured Philippe. "Cursed fool that I was,
I forgot it. I too have missed a fortune."
He was seized with a horrible delirium of fever, and began to rave.
Joseph, assisted by old Desroches, who had come back, and by Bixiou,
carried him to his room. Doctor Haudry was obliged to write a line to
the Hopital de la Charite and borrow a strait-waistcoat; for the
delirium ran so high as to make him fear that Philippe might kill
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