| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: and warners avail not a people who do not believe. Do they await aught
but the like of the days of those who passed away before them?' Say,
'Wait ye then! verily, I am with you one of those who wait.' Then we
will save our apostles and those who believe; thus is it due from us
to save believers.
Say, 'O ye folk! if ye are in doubt concerning my religion, I will
not worship those ye worship other than Cod; but I worship God, who
takes you to Himself, and I am bidden to be of the believers!' And,
'Make steadfast thy face to the religion as a 'Hanif; and be not of
the idolaters; and call not besides God on what can neither profit
thee nor harm thee; for if thou dost, verily, thou art then of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: had caraway seeds in them.
One day Sister Mary Felice said: ``Sister Angela, did Sister
Ignatius put too many caraway seeds in the cakes this time?''
Sister Angela said: ``I think not, Sister Mary Felice. Will you try
one?''
Sister Mary Felice said: ``I thank you, Sister Angela.''
Then Sister Mary Felice took one to try.
Then always Sister Angela, with the Indian basket on her arm, took
all the little girls to the long back gallery that was latticed in.
On a low shelf close against the lattice sat a row of white basins.
Then all the little tiny girls washed their little tiny hands in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: blush to own--you yourself laughed at. Allow me, monsieur, in the
interests of truth, which I am far more anxious to establish for my
own sake than you can be for the sake of justice, to ask this lady--
Madame Foiret----"
"Poiret."
"Poret--excuse me, I am a Spaniard--whether she remembers the other
persons who lived in this--what did you call the house?"
"A boarding-house," said Madame Poiret.
"I do not know what that is."
"A house where you can dine and breakfast by subscription."
"You are right," said Camusot, with a favorable nod to Jacques Collin,
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