The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln: of his assassination.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863
on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . .
can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: own names only, or did you write your enemies' names as well as your own
and your friends'?
As much one as the other.
And was there anything meddling or intemperate in this?
Certainly not.
And yet if reading and writing are the same as doing, you were doing what
was not your own business?
But they are the same as doing.
And the healing art, my friend, and building, and weaving, and doing
anything whatever which is done by art,--these all clearly come under the
head of doing?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: but master and foreman, deep in absorbing intellectual interests, were
quite content with such orders as came to them from their remaining
customers.
In the long length the Cointets had come to understand David's
character and habits. They did not slander him now; on the contrary,
wise policy required that they should allow the business to flicker
on; it was to their interest indeed to maintain it in a small way,
lest it should fall into the hands of some more formidable competitor;
they made a practice of sending prospectuses and circulars--job-
printing, as it is called--to the Sechard's establishment. So it came
about that, all unwittingly, David owed his existence, commercially
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