The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: --between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of
different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof,
and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
In all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls,
and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have
original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the
supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact,
with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury;
and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall
have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: they hadn't been so fatally benevolent. I hated at all events Mr.
Rumble's picture, and had my bottled resentment ready when, later
on, I found my distracted friend had been stuffed by Mrs. Wimbush
into the mouth of another cannon. A young artist in whom she was
intensely interested, and who had no connexion with Mr. Rumble, was
to show how far he could make him go. Poor Paraday, in return, was
naturally to write something somewhere about the young artist. She
played her victims against each other with admirable ingenuity, and
her establishment was a huge machine in which the tiniest and the
biggest wheels went round to the same treadle. I had a scene with
her in which I tried to express that the function of such a man was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: hiemi navigationem subiciendam non existimabat. Ipse idoneam tempestatem
nactus paulo post mediam noctem naves solvit, quae omnes incolumes ad
continentem pervenerunt; sed ex iis onerariae duae eosdem portus quos
reliquae capere non potuerunt et paulo infra delatae sunt.
Quibus ex navibus cum essent expositi milites circiter CCC atque in
castra contenderent, Morini, quos Caesar in Britanniam proficiscens
pacatos reliquerat, spe praedae adducti primo non ita magno suorum numero
circumsteterunt ac, si sese interfici nollent, arma ponere iusserunt. Cum
illi orbe facto sese defenderent, celeriter ad clamorem hominum circiter
milia VI convenerunt; Qua re nuntiata, Caesar omnem ex castris equitatum
suis auxilio misit. Interim nostri milites impetum hostium sustinuerunt
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