| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall
think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers;
he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall
Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the
United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for,
and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
ARTICLE THREE
Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested
in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may
from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: opportunity to gratify it.
CHAPTER XVI
Duane followed the stage through the town, out into the open,
on to a wide, hard-packed road showing years of travel. It
headed northwest. To the left rose a range of low, bleak
mountains he had noted yesterday, and to the right sloped the
mesquite-patched sweep of ridge and flat. The driver pushed his
team to a fast trot, which gait surely covered ground rapidly.
The stage made three stops in the forenoon, one at a place
where the horses could be watered, the second at a chuck-wagon
belonging to cowboys who were riding after stock, and the third
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: Cervantes in the original when as a matter of fact I know not
one syllable of Spanish - this, indeed, is easy and to the
same degree unimportant in itself. Lies of this sort,
according to circumstances, may or may not be important; in a
certain sense even they may or may not be false. The habitual
liar may be a very honest fellow, and live truly with his wife
and friends; while another man who never told a formal
falsehood in his life may yet be himself one lie - heart and
face, from top to bottom. This is the kind of lie which
poisons intimacy. And, VICE VERSA, veracity to sentiment,
truth in a relation, truth to your own heart and your friends,
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