| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Zek, who, six months previously, had affronted the
majesty of Abdul Mourak's emperor by conducting a slave
raid within the boundaries of Menelek's domain.
And now it happened that Abdul Mourak had halted for a
short rest at noon upon this very day and along the
same trail that Werper and Mugambi were following
toward the east.
It was shortly after the soldiers had dismounted that
the Belgian, unaware of their presence, rode his tired
mount almost into their midst, before he had discovered
them. Instantly he was surrounded, and a volley of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: led the revolution to a successful issue. The assembly which
accepted the task of composing the second constitution was small;
*c but George Washington was its President, and it contained the
choicest talents and the noblest hearts which had ever appeared
in the New World. This national commission, after long and
mature deliberation, offered to the acceptance of the people the
body of general laws which still rules the Union. All the States
adopted it successively. *d The new Federal Government commenced
its functions in 1789, after an interregnum of two years. The
Revolution of America terminated when that of France began.
[Footnote a: See the articles of the first confederation formed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: when his name in politics was 'the courageous Cerizet." He was sent
off into a very snug little sub-prefecture. Unluckily for him, it is
one thing to be in opposition--any missile is good enough to throw, so
long as the flight lasts; but quite another to be in office. Three
months later, he was obliged to send in his resignation. Had he not
taken it into his head to attempt to win popularity? Still, as he had
done nothing as yet to imperil his title of 'courageous Cerizet,' the
Government proposed by way of compensation that he should manage a
newspaper; nominally an Opposition newspaper, but Ministerialist /in
petto/. So the fall of this noble nature was really due to the
Government. To Cerizet, as manager of the paper, it was rather too
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