| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: perceive you. Verily, they-should they perceive youwould stone you, or
would force you back again unto their faith, and ye would never
prosper then.'
Thus did we make their people acquainted with their story, that they
might know that God's promise is true; and that the Hour, there is
no doubt concerning it. When they disputed amongst themselves
concerning their affair, and said, 'Build a building over them,
their Lord knows best about them;' and those who prevailed in their
affair said, 'We will surely make a mosque over them.'
They will say, 'Three, and the fourth of them was their dog:' and
they will say, 'Five, and the sixth of them was their dog:' guessing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: Much benefit might accrue to educators and moralists if they could
know the details of the curriculum of reclamation through which Ranse
put his waif during the month that he spent in the San Gabriel camp.
The ranchman had no fine theories to work out--perhaps his whole stock
of pedagogy embraced only a knowledge of horse-breaking and a belief
in heredity.
The cowpunchers saw that their boss was trying to make a man out of
the strange animal that he had sent among them; and they tacitly
organised themselves into a faculty of assistants. But their system
was their own.
Curly's first lesson stuck. He became on friendly and then on intimate
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