| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: Marie shook her head, pursing her lips and
blowing her warm breath softly out into the
frosty air. "No; I was spoiled at home. I like
my own way, and I have a quick tongue. When
Frank brags, I say sharp things, and he never
forgets. He goes over and over it in his mind;
I can feel him. Then I'm too giddy. Frank's
wife ought to be timid, and she ought not to
care about another living thing in the world but
just Frank! I didn't, when I married him, but
I suppose I was too young to stay like that."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: all things beneath the sky. Down to the waist he was a man,
but below he was a noble horse; his white hair rolled down
over his broad shoulders, and his white beard over his broad
brown chest; and his eyes were wise and mild, and his
forehead like a mountain-wall.
And in his hands he held a harp of gold, and struck it with a
golden key; and as he struck, he sang till his eyes
glittered, and filled all the cave with light.
And he sang of the birth of Time, and of the heavens and the
dancing stars; and of the ocean, and the ether, and the fire,
and the shaping of the wondrous earth. And he sang of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor,
and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed
twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved,
and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court
of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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