| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: plurimum valebant, in itinere agmen nostrum adorti primum equestre
proelium commiserunt, deinde equitatu suo pulso atque insequentibus
nostris subito pedestres copias, quas in convalle in insidiis
conlocaverant, ostenderunt. Hi nostros disiectos adorti proelium
renovarunt.
Pugnatum est diu atque acriter, cum Sotiates superioribus victoriis
freti in sua virtute totius Aquitaniae salutem positam putarent, nostri
autem quid sine imperatore et sine reliquis legionibus adulescentulo duce
efficere possent perspici cuperent; tandem confecti vulneribus hostes
terga verterunt. Quorum magno numero interfecto Crassus ex itinere
oppidum Sotiatium oppugnare coepit. Quibus fortiter resistentibus vineas
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: with the rider.
Venters rode to the barn, and, leaping off, shouted for Jerd. The
boy came running. Venters sent him for meat, bread, and dried
fruits, to be packed in saddlebags. His own horse he turned loose
into the nearest corral. Then he went for Wrangle. The giant
sorrel had earned his name for a trait the opposite of
amiability. He came readily out of the barn, but once in the yard
he broke from Venters, and plunged about with ears laid back.
Venters had to rope him, and then he kicked down a section of
fence, stood on his hind legs, crashed down and fought the rope.
Jerd returned to lend a hand.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: of the rope which is in the eye, which will
make it break more easily than if more
parts of the rope were acted upon. So
the eye, tho' made round and smooth, may
be said in some measure to CUT THE ROPE.
And it is after this manner that one may
break a whip cord, nay, a small jack-line
with one's hand without hurting it; only
by bringing one part of the rope to cut
the other; that is, placing it so round one's
left hand, that by a sudden jerk, the whole
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