The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: Alas, the wind has made me wise,
Over my naked soul it blew, --
There is no peace for me on earth
Even with you.
Morning
I went out on an April morning
All alone, for my heart was high,
I was a child of the shining meadow,
I was a sister of the sky.
There in the windy flood of morning
Longing lifted its weight from me,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: in government or administration, and these men
equally are liable to become autocratic through the
habit of giving orders. It used to be customary to
speak of the ``governing classes,'' but nominal democracy
has caused this phrase to go out of fashion.
Nevertheless, it still retains much truth; there are
still in any capitalist community those who command
and those who as a rule obey. The outlook of these
two classes is very different, though in a modern
society there is a continuous gradation from the extreme
of the one to the extreme of the other. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: and the steward was opposing him.
"You can't see him."
"Why can't I?"
"The Captain is at breakfast, I tell you. He'll be going on shore
presently, and you can speak to him on deck."
"That's not fair. You let - "
"I've had nothing to do with that."
"Oh, yes, you have. Everybody ought to have the same chance. You
let that fellow - "
The rest I lost. The person having been repulsed successfully, the
steward came down. I can't say he looked flushed - he was a
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