| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: look back at half a century, he pointed out. The smoke
oozed placidly through the white hairs hiding his kindly
lips.
"At all events," he resumed after a pause, "I am
glad that they've had no time to do you much harm as
yet."
This allusion to his comparative youthfulness did not
offend Mr. Van Wyk, who got up and wriggled his
shoulders with an enigmatic half-smile. They walked
out together amicably into the starry night towards
the river-side. Their footsteps resounded unequally on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: it. It is that all your conduct is now directed by the senti-
ment of a duty more sacred -- if there can be one -- than
that which unites the son to the mother."
Nadia was silent, and from that moment avoided every
subject which in any way touched on Michael's peculiar
situation. He had a secret motive which she must respect.
She respected it.
The next day, July 25th, at three o'clock in the morning,
the tarantass arrived at Tioukalmsk, having accomplished
a distance of eighty miles since it had crossed the Ichim.
They rapidly changed horses. Here, however, for the first
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns,
and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries
to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun
with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the
most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas
to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of
their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has
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