| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: "If he's Buck Duane how'n hell did you get hold of his gun?"
bluntly queried the cowboy.
"Why--he set down thar--an' he kind of hid his face on his
hand. An' I grabbed his gun an' got the drop on him."
What the cowboy thought of this was expressed in a laugh. His
mates likewise grinned broadly. Then the leader turned to
Duane.
"Stranger, I reckon you'd better speak up for yourself," he
said.
That stilled the crowd as no command had done.
"I'm Buck Duane, all right." said Duane, quietly. "It was this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: They also made optical glass; drilled and tapped in the shipyards;
renewed electric wires and fittings, wound armatures; lacquered guards
for lamps and radiator fronts; repaired junction and section boxes, fire
control instruments, automatic searchlights. "We can hardly believe our
eyes," said another foreman, "when we see the heavy stuff brought to and
from the shops in motor lorries driven by girls. Before the war it was
all carted by horses and men. The girls do the job all right, though, and
the only thing they ever complain about is that their toes get cold."
They worked without hesitation from twelve to fourteen hours a day, or a
night, for seven days a week, and with the voluntary sacrifice of public
holidays.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: Kellsrhins: when we came to go up the mountain, there came on
a great rain, which we thought was the occasion of the child's
weeping, and she wept so bitterly, that all we could do could
not divert her from it, so that she was ready to burst. When
we got to the top of the mountain, where the Lord had been
formerly kind to my soul in prayer, I looked round me for a
stone, and espying one, I went and brought it. When the woman
with me saw me set down the stone, she smiled, and asked what
I was going to do with it. I told her I was going to set it
up as my Ebenezer, because hitherto, and in that place, the
Lord had formerly helped, and I hoped would yet help. The
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