| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: none feel secure from the craft of God except a people that shall
lose.
Is it not shown to those who inherit the earth after its (former)
people, that, did we please, we would smite them in their sins, and
would set a stamp upon their hearts, and then they should not hear?
These cities, we do relate to thee their stories. There came to them
our apostles with manifest signs; but they did not at all believe in
what they called a lie before.- Thus doth God set a stamp upon the
hearts of those who misbelieve.
Nor did we find in most of them a covenant; but we did find most
of them workers of abomination.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the
one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity
lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail.
Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
Now, I have said that the community by means of organisation of
machinery will supply the useful things, and that the beautiful
things will be made by the individual. This is not merely
necessary, but it is the only possible way by which we can get
either the one or the other. An individual who has to make things
for the use of others, and with reference to their wants and their
wishes, does not work with interest, and consequently cannot put
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: placed a gold crown upon his head.
When it came time to qualify and be sworn into office I found
trouble. The Republican boss was disgruntled because only one
Republican was elected while the Democrats got everything else.
He wanted me to give up the office. "Let the tail go with the
hide," he said. "Let 'em have it all." His idea was to give the
Democrats a closed family circle, so that when temptation came
along, they would feel safe in falling for it. He feared that a
Republican in the house to watch them would scare them away from
the bait. He wanted them to take bribes and be ruined by the
scandal, and that would bring the Republicans back to power. It
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