| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: believed said, 'O my people! follow me, I will guide you to the way of
the right direction. O my people! verily, the life of this world is
but a provision, but, verily, the hereafter, that is the abode of
stability! Whoso does evil, he shall only be recompensed with the like
thereof; and whoso does right, be it male or female and a believer,
these shall enter into Paradise; they shall be provided therein
without count. O my people! why should I call you to salvation, and
you call me to the fire? Ye call on me to disbelieve in God, and to
join with Him what I have no knowledge of; but I call you to the
mighty forgiving One! no doubt that what ye call me to, ought not to
be called on in this world or in the hereafter, and that we shall be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: All evening I sat by the fire considering my situation. I
could not pay the bill; my landlady would not suffer me to
remove my boxes; and without either baggage or money, how was
I to find another lodging? For three months, unless I could
invent some remedy, I was condemned to be without a roof and
without a penny. It can surprise no one that I decided on
immediate flight; but even here I was confronted by a
difficulty, for I had no sooner packed my boxes than I found
I was not strong enough to move, far less to carry them.
In this strait I did not hesitate a moment, but throwing on a
shawl and bonnet, and covering my face with a thick veil, I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: the existing uncertain and provisional, and establish a definite state
of things; they claimed that its continued existence hindered the
effectiveness of the new Government, that it sought to prolong its life
out of pure malice, and that the country was tired of it. Bonaparte
took notice of all these invectives hurled at the legislative power, he
learned them by heart, and, on December 21, 1851, he showed the
parliamentary royalists that he had learned from them. He repeated
their own slogans against themselves.
The Barrot ministry and the party of Order went further. They called
all over France for petitions to the National Assembly in which that
body was politely requested to disappear. Thus they led the people's
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