| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: fifty.
EZR 8:4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and
with him two hundred males.
EZR 8:5 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him
three hundred males.
EZR 8:6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with
him fifty males.
EZR 8:7 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with
him seventy males.
EZR 8:8 And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and
with him fourscore males.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: and make a speech. Shrill and passionate words
came to his lips.
The line, broken into moving fragments by the
ground, went calmly on through fields and woods.
The youth looked at the men nearest him, and
saw, for the most part, expressions of deep inter-
est, as if they were investigating something that
had fascinated them. One or two stepped with
overvaliant airs as if they were already plunged
into war. Others walked as upon thin ice. The
greater part of the untested men appeared quiet
The Red Badge of Courage |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: simply eliminated. They had represented property. Now they were
gone. The loss of $60,000 or so on them, however, did not mean a
diminution of the company's present cash resources to that amount;
and so did not immediately affect Orde's calculations as to the
payment of the notes which were now soon to come due.
At this time the woods work increasingly demanded his attention. He
disappeared for a week, his organising abilities claimed for the
distribution of the road crews. When he returned to the office,
Newmark, with an air of small triumph, showed him contracts for the
construction of three new vessels.
"I get them for $55,000," said he, "with $30,000 of it on long
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