| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: his base of operations. But he shot meanwhile erratic in many
directions: twice to America, as we have seen, on telegraph
voyages; continually to London on business; often to Paris; year
after year to the Highlands to shoot, to fish, to learn reels and
Gaelic, to make the acquaintance and fall in love with the
character of Highlanders; and once to Styria, to hunt chamois and
dance with peasant maidens. All the while, he was pursuing the
course of his electrical studies, making fresh inventions, taking
up the phonograph, filled with theories of graphic representation;
reading, writing, publishing, founding sanitary associations,
interested in technical education, investigating the laws of metre,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my delicate youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
HUMAYUN TO ZOBEIDA
(From the Urdu)
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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.: northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will
be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties
and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a
dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be
self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons
of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able
to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
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