The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: in any other way, since mothers of young children
ought not to be expected to work outside the home.
The expense of children will not fall, as at present,
on the parents. They will receive, like adults,
their share of necessaries, and their education will
be free.[60] There is no longer to be the present
competition for scholarships among the abler children:
they will not be imbued with the competitive spirit
from infancy, or forced to use their brains to an
unnatural degree with consequent listlessness and lack
of health in later life. Education will be far more
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: those words when you wanted to insult or humiliate some one, or
say something unpleasant. Yes, that's your way: if with your
views and such an attitude to people you are allowed to take part
in anything, you would destroy it from the first day. It's time
you understand that."
She sighed and paused.
"It's coarseness of character, Pavel Andreitch," she said. "You
are well-bred and educated, but what a . . . Scythian you are in
reality! That's because you lead a cramped life full of hatred,
see no one, and read nothing but your engineering books. And, you
know, there are good people, good books! Yes . . . but I am
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: keeping and possession, is made and fashioned; but I fear greatly
that I shall fail in the attempt; for the fashion of it is so
fine that it will be no wonder if I fail. Yet I shall devote all
my effort to telling you how it seems to me. The notch and the
feathers are so close together, when carefully examined, that the
line of separation is as fine as a hair's breadth; but the notch
is so smooth and straight that in it surely no improvement could
be made. The feathers are coloured as if they were of gold or
gilt; but gilt is here beside the mark, for I know these feathers
were more brilliant than any gilt. This dart is barbed with the
golden tresses that I saw the other day at sea. That is the dart
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