| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: same things.
A pretty clatter, as men say, Euthydemus, this of yours! and will you
explain how I possess that knowledge for which we were seeking? Do you
mean to say that the same thing cannot be and also not be; and therefore,
since I know one thing, that I know all, for I cannot be knowing and not
knowing at the same time, and if I know all things, then I must have the
knowledge for which we are seeking--May I assume this to be your ingenious
notion?
Out of your own mouth, Socrates, you are convicted, he said.
Well, but, Euthydemus, I said, has that never happened to you? for if I am
only in the same case with you and our beloved Dionysodorus, I cannot
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: o'clock, as if she had come to some great determination, she went out,
leaving the whole household in amazement at such a sudden
transformation.
"Is the Count coming home to dinner?" she asked of his servant, to
whom she would never speak.
"No, madame."
"Did you go with him to the Courts this morning?"
"Yes, madame."
"And to-day is Monday?"
"Yes, madame."
"Then do the Courts sit on Mondays nowadays?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: printers, of a third share for a leading magazine and newspaper
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"I played 'em off one against the other," said my uncle. I took
his point in an instant. He had gone to each of them in turn and
said the others had come in.
"I put up four hundred pounds," said my uncle, "myself and my
all. And you know--"
He assumed a brisk confidence. "I hadn't five hundred pence. At
least--"
For a moment he really was just a little embarrassed. "I DID" he
said, "produce capital. You see, there was that trust affair of
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