| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: "What, is it laborers they want for the harvest?" he asked.
"I don't know, my boy."
"So you keep to the left, and you'll come right on it," said the
peasant, unmistakably loth to let the travelers go, and eager to
converse.
The coachman started the horses, but they were only just turning
off when the peasant shouted: "Stop! Hi, friend! Stop!" called
the two voices. The coachman stopped.
"They're coming! They're yonder!" shouted the peasant. "See what
a turn-out!" he said, pointing to four persons on horseback, and
two in a char-a-banc, coming along the road.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: Burning a nigger don't begin."
CHAPTER XII - MONGREL AND THE OTHER HORSE
"Sage-Brush, you have been listening?"
"Yes."
"Isn't it strange?"
"Well, no, Mongrel, I don't know that it is."
"Why don't you?"
"I've seen a good many human beings in my time. They are created
as they are; they cannot help it. They are only brutal because
that is their make; brutes would be brutal if it was THEIR make."
"To me, Sage-Brush, man is most strange and unaccountable. Why
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: shoes.
For a moment the tired gaze of the man in the bed rested upon
these evidences of his episcopal dignity. Then he turned from
them to the watch at the bedside.
He groaned helplessly.
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These country doctors were no good. There wasn't a physician in
the diocese. He must go to London.
He looked into the weary eyes of his reflection and said, as
one makes a reassuring promise, "London."
He was being worried. He was being intolerably worried, and he
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