| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: social system providing for a more just distribution
of material goods might close to the instinct of
competitiveness those channels in which it is harmful,
and cause it to flow instead in channels in which it
would become a benefit to mankind. This is one great
reason why the communal ownership of land and capital
would be likely to have a beneficial effect upon
human nature, for human nature, as it exists in adult
men and women, is by no means a fixed datum, but
a product of circumstances, education and opportunity
operating upon a highly malleable native
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: As he looked at me, I suppose that he read negation in my eyes.
"No more can I," he murmured. Again he looked in among the tombstones and
flowers, where the old custodian saw us and took off his hat. "Howdy,
Daddy Ben!" John Mayrant returned pleasantly, and then resuming to me:
"No more can I believe everything." Then he gave a brief, comical laugh.
"And I hope my aunts won't find that out! They would think me gone to
perdition indeed. But I always go to church here" (he pointed to the
quiet building, which, for all its modest size and simplicity, had a
stately and inexpressible charm), "because I like to kneel where my
mother said her prayers, you know." He flushed a little over this
confidence into which he had fallen, but he continued: "I like the words
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: checked suddenly, crouched an instant, then with a queer, throaty sound
bounded forward in a wild delight that robbed it on the instant of its
voice. It found it anon and leapt about him, barking furious joy in
pite of all his vain endeavours to calm it. He grew afraid lest the
dog should draw attention. He knew not who - if any - might be in
possession of his house. The library, as he looked round, showed a
scene of wreckage that excellently matched the exterior. Not a picture
on the walls, not an arras, but had been rent to shreds. The great
lustre that had hung from the centre of the ceiling was gone. Disorder
reigned along the bookshelves, and yet there and elsewhere there was a
certain orderliness, suggesting an attempt to straighten up the place
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