| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: apropos of nothing.
"That's another way of telling me that Nora's pug is the sweetest
thing you ever saw," she charged.
"I ain't half such a bad actor as some of the boys," he
deprecated.
"Meaning in what way?"
"The Nora Darling way."
He pronounced her name so much as if it were a caress that his
mistress laughed, and he joined in it.
"It's your fickleness that is breaking my heart, though I knew I
was lost as soon as I saw your beatific look on the day you got
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: looked at the girl before him crying out that her arm was hurt, his
smile grew broader.
It was the smile that did it, convicting Joan in her own eyes of
the silliness of her cry and sending over her face the most amazing
blush he had ever seen. Throat, cheeks, and forehead flamed with
the rush of the shamed blood.
"He--he--" she attempted to vindicate her deeper indignation, then
whirled abruptly away and passed out the rear door and down the
steps.
Sheldon sat and mused. He was a trifle angry, and the more he
dwelt upon the happening the angrier he grew. If it had been any
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the
insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed
no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration
which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause
of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself
should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less
fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray
to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.
It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's
assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces;
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