| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: mind but that he could accomplish his aim. It was then that
his engine stalled.
He was too low to do anything but land, and that immedi-
ately, while he had the more open country accessible, for
directly east of him was a vast forest into which a stalled
engine could only have plunged him to certain injury and
probable death; and so he came down in the meadowland
near the winding river and there started to tinker with his
motor.
As he worked he hummed a tune, some music-hall air that
had been popular in London the year before, so that one might
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: not wise.
CO2 10:13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but
according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a
measure to reach even unto you.
CO2 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we
reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching
the gospel of Christ:
CO2 10:15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other
men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we
shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
CO2 10:16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: against a SHU (1/24 oz.); a routed army is a SHU weighed against
an I." The point is simply the enormous advantage which a
disciplined force, flushed with victory, has over one demoralized
by defeat." Legge, in his note on Mencius, I. 2. ix. 2, makes
the I to be 24 Chinese ounces, and corrects Chu Hsi's statement
that it equaled 20 oz. only. But Li Ch`uan of the T`ang dynasty
here gives the same figure as Chu Hsi.]
20. The onrush of a conquering force is like the bursting
of pent-up waters into a chasm a thousand fathoms deep.
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The Art of War |
