| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: protects the oppressed, and it maintains public order. The nation
is lulled by the temporary prosperity which accrues to it, until
it is roused to a sense of its own misery. Liberty, on the
contrary, is generally established in the midst of agitation, it
is perfected by civil discord, and its benefits cannot be
appreciated until it is already old.
Chapter XIV: Advantages American Society Derive From Democracy -
Part II
Respect For The Law In The United States
Respect of the Americans for the law - Parental affection which
they entertain for it - Personal interest of everyone to increase
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: but these weigh 80 or 100 tons.
'July 5.
'Our first mate was much hurt in securing a buoy on the evening of
the 2nd. As interpreter [with the Italians] I am useful in all
these cases; but for no fortune would I be a doctor to witness
these scenes continually. Pain is a terrible thing. - Our work is
done: the whole of the six-wire cable has been recovered; only a
small part of the three-wire, but that wire was bad and, owing to
its twisted state, the value small. We may therefore be said to
have been very successful.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: bread and cheese.
Then he cautiously left the house and latched the door behind him. Outside
both moon and stars shone brightly, and the night seemed peaceful and
inviting after the close and ill-smelling kitchen.
"I'll be glad to get away," said Tip, softly; "for I never did like that old
woman. I wonder how I ever came to live with her."
He was walking slowly toward the road when a thought made him pause.
"I don't like to leave Jack Pumpkinhead to the tender mercies of old Mombi,"
he muttered. "And Jack belongs to me, for I made him even if the old witch
did bring him to life."
He retraced his steps to the cow-stable and opened the door of the stall
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