| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Don't worry, dear," Dorothy exclaimed, "I'll hold you in my arms, and
take you with me."
"Take us, too!" cried the nine tiny piglets, all in one breath.
"Perhaps I can," answered Dorothy. "I'll try."
"Couldn't you manage to hold me in your arms?" asked the cab-horse.
Dorothy laughed.
"I'll do better than that," she promised, "for I can easily save you
all, once I am myself in the Land of Oz."
"How?" they asked.
"By using the Magic Belt. All I need do is to wish you with me, and
there you'll be--safe in the royal palace!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: person offering a fair profit on the money invested, though he
might get much more by allowing them to bid against each other.
Among the attractive sights in Peking, none are quite so
interesting as the places where His Majesty worships, and of
these the most beautiful in architecture, the grandest in
conception, and the one laid out on the most magnificent scale,
is the Temple of Heaven.
Think of six hundred and forty acres of valuable city property
being set aside for the grounds of a single temple, as compared
with the way our own great churches are crowded into small city
lots of scarcely as many square feet, and over-shadowed by great
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: of their sinister fellowship. Once they hear a man swear, it
is wonderful how their tongues loosen and their bashful
spirits take enlargement, under the consciousness of
brotherhood. There is no folly, no pardoning warmth of
temper about them; they are as steady-going and systematic in
their own way as the studious in theirs.
Not that we are without merry men. No. We shall not be
ungrateful to those, whose grimaces, whose ironical laughter,
whose active feet in the 'College Anthem' have beguiled so
many weary hours and added a pleasant variety to the strain
of close attention. But even these are too evidently
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