| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: in complicated civilizations like ours is the truth that whoever
consumes goods or services without producing by personal effort the
equivalent of what he or she consumes, inflicts on the community
precisely the same injury that a thief produces, and would, in any
honest State, be treated as a thief, however full his or her pockets
might be of money made by other people. The nation that first teaches
its children that truth, instead of flogging them if they discover it
for themselves, may have to fight all the slaves of all the other
nations to begin with; but it will beat them as easily as an
unburdened man with his hands free and with all his energies in full
play can beat an invalid who has to carry another invalid on his back.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: fortune he had appropriated by selling her estate and putting the
money to his account, and his meek, frightened, plain daughter,
who lived a lonely, weary life, from which she had lately begun
to look for relaxation in evangelicism, attending meetings at
Aline's, and the Countess Katerina Ivanovna. Wolf's son, who had
grown a beard at the age of 15, and had at that age begun to
drink and lead a depraved life, which he continued to do till the
age of 20, when he was turned out by his father because he never
finished his studies, moved in a low set and made debts which
committed the father. The father had once paid a debt of 250
roubles for his son, then another of 600 roubles, but warned the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: leave the house down the verandah steps.
On this Captain Giles remarked easily that the
fellow had no doubt gone off to look after my old
job. The Chief Steward, who had been leaning
against the wall, brought his face of an unhappy
goat nearer to the table and addressed us dole-
fully. His object was to unburden himself of his
eternal grievance against Hamilton. The man
kept him in hot water with the Harbour Office as
to the state of his accounts. He wished to good-
ness he would get my job, though in truth what
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