| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: though she did not care what became of herself, she had
every reason to fear for her son.
Sangarre, under cover of the night, had crept near the
two women, and remained there several hours listening.
She heard nothing. From an instinctive feeling of pru-
dence not a word was exchanged between Nadia and Marfa
Strogoff. The next day, the 16th of August, about ten in
the morning, trumpet-calls resounded throughout the en-
campment. The Tartar soldiers were almost immediately
under arms.
Ivan Ogareff arrived, surrounded by a large staff of Tar-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: each by his own peril. In this way they reached the shore.
When they were all seated near the fisherman's fire, they looked round
in vain for their guide with the light about him. The sea washed up
the steersman at the base of the cliff on which the cottage stood; he
was clinging with might and main to the plank as a sailor can cling
when death stares him in the face; the MAN went down and rescued the
almost exhausted seaman; then he said, as he held out a succoring hand
above the man's head:
"Good, for this once; but do not try it again; the example would be
too bad."
He took the skipper on his shoulders, and carried him to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose
governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a
situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to
join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk
together as sisters and brothers.
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