| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: commands, asked all of her party, including the
Skeezers, to withdraw from the shore of the take to the
line of palm trees. She kept with her only the little
Wizard of Oz, who was her pupil and knew how to assist
her in her magic rites. When they two were alone beside
the stranded boat, Glinda said to the Wizard:
"I shall first try my magic recipe No. 1163, which is
intended to make inanimate objects move at my command.
Have you a skeropythrope with you?"
"Yes, I always carry one in my bag," replied the
Wizard. He opened his black bag of magic tools and took
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: "If we ever get there at all," the soldier remarked to the peasant,
"it will be because the Almighty is bent on keeping us alive."
"Ah! He is the Master," said the old woman, "but I think it will be
His good pleasure to take us to Himself. Just look at that light down
there . . ." and she nodded her head as she spoke towards the sunset.
Streaks of fiery red glared from behind the masses of crimson-flushed
brown cloud that seemed about to unloose a furious gale. There was a
smothered murmur of the sea, a moaning sound that seemed to come from
the depths, a low warning growl, such as a dog gives when he only
means mischief as yet. After all, Ostend was not far away. Perhaps
painting, like poetry, could not prolong the existence of the picture
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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: the year 1833: could: "The Constitution is a compact to which the
States were parties in their sovereign capacity; now, whenever a
compact is entered into by parties which acknowledge no tribunal
above their authority to decide in the last resort, each of them
has a right to judge for itself in relation to the nature,
extent, and obligations of the instrument." It is evident that a
similar doctrine destroys the very basis of the Federal
Constitution, and brings back all the evils of the old
confederation, from which the Americans were supposed to have had
a safe deliverance.
When South Carolina perceived that Congress turned a deaf
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