| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: embarrassments or of the future dangers of the United States, the
observer is invariably led to consider this as a primary fact.
The permanent evils to which mankind is subjected are
usually produced by the vehement or the increasing efforts of
men; but there is one calamity which penetrated furtively into
the world, and which was at first scarcely distinguishable amidst
the ordinary abuses of power; it originated with an individual
whose name history has not preserved; it was wafted like some
accursed germ upon a portion of the soil, but it afterwards
nurtured itself, grew without effort, and spreads naturally with
the society to which it belongs. I need scarcely add that this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: LORD ILLINGWORTH. A mother's love is very touching, of course, but
it is often curiously selfish. I mean, there is a good deal of
selfishness in it.
GERALD. [Slowly.] I suppose there is.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Your mother is a thoroughly good woman. But
good women have such limited views of life, their horizon is so
small, their interests are so petty, aren't they?
GERALD. They are awfully interested, certainly, in things we don't
care much about.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. I suppose your mother is very religious, and
that sort of thing.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: shore for my help were either quite gone, or very much wasted and
near spent.
My ink, as I observed, had been gone some time, all but a very
little, which I eked out with water, a little and a little, till it
was so pale, it scarce left any appearance of black upon the paper.
As long as it lasted I made use of it to minute down the days of
the month on which any remarkable thing happened to me; and first,
by casting up times past, I remembered that there was a strange
concurrence of days in the various providences which befell me, and
which, if I had been superstitiously inclined to observe days as
fatal or fortunate, I might have had reason to have looked upon
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