| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: SOCRATES: And the same art improves the feet which improves the rest of
the body?
ALCIBIADES: Very true.
SOCRATES: Which is gymnastic?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly.
SOCRATES: Then by gymnastic we take care of our feet, and by shoemaking of
that which belongs to our feet?
ALCIBIADES: Very true.
SOCRATES: And by gymnastic we take care of our hands, and by the art of
graving rings of that which belongs to our hands?
ALCIBIADES: Yes.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: known, it is true, as yet, but sure of recognition one day, and when
that day comes, of great distinction. They are distinguished as it is
at carnival time, when their exuberant wit, repressed for the rest of
the year, finds a vent in more or less ingenious buffoonery.
"What times we live in! What an irrational central power which allows
such tremendous energies to run to waste! There are diplomatists in
Bohemia quite capable of overturning Russia's designs, if they but
felt the power of France at their backs. There are writers,
administrators, soldiers, and artists in Bohemia; every faculty, every
kind of brain is represented there. Bohemia is a microcosm. If the
Czar would buy Bohemia for a score of millions and set its population
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: "And you DO care for me. You DO care for me. Think! The long
years I have waited, suffered! You can never know!" He stooped
and raised her to her feet.
"Listen," he commanded, opening the door and lifting her bodily
outside. "It cannot be. We are not alone to be considered. You
must go. I wish you a safe journey. You will find it tougher
work when you get up by the Sixty Mile, but you have the best
boatmen in the world, and will get through all right. Will you
say good-by?"
Though she already had herself in hand, she looked at him
hopelessly. "If--if--if Winapie should--" She quavered and
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