| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the
end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
ISA 23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be
remembered.
ISA 23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years,
that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall
commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of
the earth.
ISA 23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the
LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: and Georgina marry millionaires and the governor dies after
cutting them off with a shilling, I shall have only four hundred
a year. And he wont die until he's three score and ten: he hasnt
originality enough. I shall be on short allowance for the next
twenty years. No short allowance for Viv, if I can help it. I
withdraw gracefully and leave the field to the gilded youth of
England. So that settled. I shant worry her about it: I'll just
send her a little note after we're gone. She'll understand.
PRAED [grasping his hand] Good fellow, Frank! I heartily beg
your pardon. But must you never see her again?
FRANK. Never see her again! Hang it all, be reasonable. I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: built a school that has this flavor.
The war drove home a lesson that will forever make false
education hateful to me. Education in the wrong direction can
destroy a nation and wreck the happiness of the world. The German
worker was taught that he would get rich, not by patient toil,
but by taking by force the wealth that others had created.
On my return from France, where I had witnessed the Hindenburg
drive into the heart of France, I addressed the Iron Workers in
their national convention. "I am glad," I said, "that I was born
an iron worker and not a Chancellor of Blood and Iron. For the
iron I wrought has helped build up a civilization, while the
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