| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: of the sieurs of Metz, and she called herself Claude; and on the
same day there came to see her there her two brothers, one of
whom was a knight, and was called Messire Pierre, and the other
'petit Jehan,' a squire, and they thought that she had been
burnt, but as soon as they saw her they recognized her and she
them. And on Monday, the 21st day of the said month, they took
their sister with them to Boquelon, and the sieur Nicole, being a
knight, gave her a stout stallion of the value of thirty francs,
and a pair of saddle-cloths; the sieur Aubert Boulle, a
riding-hood, the sieur Nicole Groguet, a sword; and the said
maiden mounted the said horse nimbly, and said several things to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: but closed forever to my brothers,
for their minds are shackled to the
weakest and dullest ones among them.
I have learned that my power of the sky
was known to men long ago; they called
it Electricity. It was the power that
moved their greatest inventions. It lit
this house with light which came from
those globes of glass on the walls.
I have found the engine which produced this light.
I shall learn how to repair it and how to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Our fishing, which proved excellent, carried us so far to
the west that we no longer could see the Coldwater. The day
wore on, until at last, about mid-afternoon, I gave the
order to return to the ship.
We had proceeded but a short distance toward the east when
one of the men gave an exclamation of excitement, at the
same time pointing eastward. We all looked on in the
direction he had indicated, and there, a short distance
above the horizon, we saw the outlines of the Coldwater
silhouetted against the sky.
"They've repaired the engines and the generators both,"
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