| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: Napoleon and his Ministers "outside the pale of the Constitution"; the
street parades of the democratic National Guards, who, unarmed as they
were, flew apart at contact with the troops of Changarnier; etc., etc.
Part of the Mountain fled abroad, another part was assigned to the High
Court of Bourges, and a parliamentary regulation placed the rest under
the school-master supervision of the President of the National Assembly.
Paris was again put under a state of siege; and the democratic portion
of the National Guards was disbanded. Thus the influence of the
Mountain in parliament was broken, together with the power; of the small
traders' class in Paris.
Lyons, where the 13th of June had given the signal to a bloody labor
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: breathed upon a thermometer it sunk
several degrees; every expiration, particularly
if strongly made, gave a pleasant
impression of coolness to their nostrils,
and their cold breath cooled their fingers
whenever it reached them. On touching
his side, Sir Charles Blagden found it cold
like a corpse, and yet the heat of his body
under his tongue was 98 degrees. Hence they
concluded that the human body possesses the
power of destroying a certain degree of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which
leads to greatness. In a democracy private citizens see a man of
their own rank in life, who rises from that obscure position, and
who becomes possessed of riches and of power in a few years; the
spectacle excites their surprise and their envy, and they are led
to inquire how the person who was yesterday their equal is to-day
their ruler. To attribute his rise to his talents or his virtues
is unpleasant; for it is tacitly to acknowledge that they are
themselves less virtuous and less talented than he was. They are
therefore led (and not unfrequently their conjecture is a correct
one) to impute his success mainly to some one of his defects; and
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