| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: esse illis probat conata perficere, propterea quod ipse suae civitatis
imperium obtenturus esset: non esse dubium quin totius Galliae plurimum
Helvetii possent; se suis copiis suoque exercitu illis regna conciliaturum
confirmat. Hac oratione adducti inter se fidem et ius iurandum dant et
regno occupato per tres potentissimos ac firmissimos populos totius
Galliae sese potiri posse sperant.
Ea res est Helvetiis per indicium enuntiata. Moribus suis Orgetoricem
ex vinculis causam dicere coegerunt; damnatum poenam sequi oportebat, ut
igni cremaretur. Die constituta causae dictionis Orgetorix ad iudicium
omnem suam familiam, ad hominum milia decem, undique coegit, et omnes
clientes obaeratosque suos, quorum magnum numerum habebat, eodem conduxit;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: "Mars Tom, you ain't jokin', en it's SO?"
"No, I'm not, and it is so."
Jim shivered again, and says:
"Den dat Monday could be de las' day, en dey
wouldn't be no las' day in England, en de dead
wouldn't be called. We mustn't go over dah, Mars
Tom. Please git him to turn back; I wants to be
whah --"
All of a sudden we see something, and all jumped
up, and forgot everything and begun to gaze. Tom
says:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: imagination had helped the clumsy official mind to its proudest
triumphs. The commissioner was an intelligent man, as far as his
lights went, and he was a good-hearted man. He rose from his chair
and walked over to where the detective stood. "You needn't look so
embarrassed, Muller," he said. "There is no cause for you to feel
bad about it. And - I am quite willing to admit that my remark
just now was unnecessary. You may give your imagination full rein,
we can trust to your intelligence and your devotion to duty to keep
it from unnecessary flights. So curbed, I know it will be of as
much assistance to us this time as it always has been."
Muller's quiet face lit up, and his eyes shone in a happiness that
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