| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: cousin; he was certainly showing spirit, but what, in such a time of
gravity, was all this talk of money? and why should he waste his
strength upon a personal issue?
'I find,' said Otto, with his finger on the docket, 'that we have
20,000 crowns in case.'
'That is exact, your Highness,' replied the Baron. 'But our
liabilities, all of which are happily not liquid, amount to a far
larger sum; and at the present point of time it would be morally
impossible to divert a single florin. Essentially, the case is
empty. We have, already presented, a large note for material of
war.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: prey upon the clergy had given rise to an idea in the
boy's mind, which had been revolving in a nebulous
way within the innermost recesses of his subconscious-
ness since his vanquishing of the three knights had
brought him, so easily, such riches in the form of horses,
arms, armor and gold. As was always his wont in his
after life, to think was to act.
"With The Black Wolf dead, and may the devil pull
out his eyes with red hot tongs, we might look farther
and fare worse, mates, in search of a chief," spoke Red
Shandy, eyeing his fellows, "for verily any man, be he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: reassuring sense of being discussed, and influencing discussion.
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Our office was at the very top of a big building near the end of
Adelphi Terrace; the main window beside my desk, a big undivided
window of plate glass, looked out upon Cleopatra's Needle, the
corner of the Hotel Cecil, the fine arches of Waterloo Bridge, and
the long sweep of south bank with its shot towers and chimneys, past
Bankside to the dimly seen piers of the great bridge below the
Tower. The dome of St. Paul's just floated into view on the left
against the hotel facade. By night and day, in every light and
atmosphere, it was a beautiful and various view, alive as a
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