| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: about the need of work into an audience of working men
who had gathered solely for the purpose of legitimate
recreation. It was not as if he sugared the medicine he gave
them. His speech was nothing but demands for discipline
and work, coupled with prophecy of disaster in case work
and discipline failed. It was delivered like all his speeches,
with a strong Polish accent and a steady succession of
mistakes in grammar.
As we walked home along the railway lines, half a dozen of
the railwaymen pressed around Radek, and almost fought
with each other as to who should walk next to him.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: hesitating to lay his proposal before Mr. Wilding. And whilst he
hesitated Mr. Wilding made obvious headway. Still Richard dared not
do it. There was a something in Wilding's eye that cried him
danger. Thus, in the end, since he could not attempt a compromise with
this fine fellow, the only course remaining was that of direct
antagonism - that is to say, direct as Richard understood directness.
Slander was the weapon he used in that secret duel; the countryside
was well stocked with stories of Mr. Wilding's many indiscretions.
I do not wish to suggest that these were unfounded. Still, the
countryside, cajoled by its primitive sense of humour into that
alliteration I have mentioned, found that having given this dog its bad
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: answer, that different nations had different customs; for, I
confess, I was heartily ashamed. (2)
Although we usually call reward and punishment the two hinges
upon which all government turns, yet I could never observe this
maxim to be put in practice by any nation except that of
Lilliput. Whoever can there bring sufficient proof, that he has
strictly observed the laws of his country for seventy-three
moons, has a claim to certain privileges, according to his
quality or condition of life, with a proportionable sum of money
out of a fund appropriated for that use: he likewise acquires
the title of SNILPALL, or legal, which is added to his name, but
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