| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: did not give them the necessary caning powers) whether I learnt my
lessons or not, provided my father paid my schooling bill, the
collection of which was the real object of the school. Consequently I
did not learn my school lessons, having much more important ones in
hand, with the result that I have not wasted my life trifling with
literary fools in taverns as Johnson did when he should have been
shaking England with the thunder of his spirit. My schooling did me a
great deal of harm and no good whatever: it was simply dragging a
child's soul through the dirt; but I escaped Squeers and Creakle just
as I escaped Johnson and Carlyle. And this is what happens to most of
us. We are not effectively coerced to learn: we stave off punishment
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: threatening to -
"I beg you not to threaten me," said the stranger calmly. "I know
my legal rights, and am not accustomed to being frightened at
bluster." [Applause.] He sat down. "Dr." Harkness saw an
opportunity here. He was one of the two very rich men of the place,
and Pinkerton was the other. Harkness was proprietor of a mint;
that is to say, a popular patent medicine. He was running for the
Legislature on one ticket, and Pinkerton on the other. It was a
close race and a hot one, and getting hotter every day. Both had
strong appetites for money; each had bought a great tract of land,
with a purpose; there was going to be a new railway, and each wanted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: I heard the keel grating against the rough calcareous bottom of
the coral reef.
At five-and-twenty minutes to three, Captain Nemo appeared in the saloon.
"We are going to start," said he.
"Ah!" replied I.
"I have given the order to open the hatches."
"And the Papuans?"
"The Papuans?" answered Captain Nemo, slightly shrugging his shoulders.
"Will they not come inside the Nautilus?"
"How?"
"Only by leaping over the hatches you have opened."
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