| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alcibiades II by Platonic Imitator: of the orators.
ALCIBIADES: True.
SOCRATES: But now see what follows, if I can (make it clear to you).
(Some words appear to have dropped out here.) You would distinguish the
wise from the foolish?
ALCIBIADES: Yes.
SOCRATES: The many are foolish, the few wise?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly.
SOCRATES: And you use both the terms, 'wise' and 'foolish,' in reference
to something?
ALCIBIADES: I do.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy: have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.
We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view.
But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their
own freedom. . .and to remember that. . .in the past. . .those who
foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe
struggling to break the bonds of mass misery: we pledge our best
efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period
is required. . .not because the Communists may be doing it,
not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: branched for a space of about fifty yards, and in her excitement
she made the mistake of choosing the lower, more level, one. Into
a deep sand bed they plowed, the wheels sinking at every turn.
Slower and slower went the car; finally came to a full stop.
Nora glanced back in affright at the two hundred and fifty tons
of beef that was charging wildly toward them. "What shall we do?"
she gasped, and clambered to the ground.
"Run!" cried Helen, following her example and scudding for the
sides of the canyon, which here sloped down less precipitately
than at other points. But before they had run a dozen steps each
of them was aware that they could not reach safety in time to
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