| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: already over-expanded list. She had never had any personal
knowledge of Gypsy Nan before, but, in a sense, the woman was no
stranger to her. Gypsy Nan was a character known far and wide
in the under-world as one possessing an insatiable and unquenchable
thirst. As to who she was, or what she was, or where she got her
money for the gin she bought, it was not in the ethics of the Bad
Lands to inquire. She was just Gypsy Nan. So that she did not
obtrude herself too obviously upon their notice, the police
suffered her; so that she gave the underworld no reason for
complaint, the underworld accepted her at face value as one of its
own!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: seemed to place it in relation to her last speech. "But that
Mademoiselle de Vionnet is to be married--I suppose you've heard of
THAT."
For all, he then found, he need fear! "Dear, yes; the gentleman
was there: Monsieur de Montbron, whom Madame de Vionnet
presented to us."
"And was he nice?"
Mamie bloomed and bridled with her best reception manner. "Any
man's nice when he's in love."
It made Strether laugh. "But is Monsieur de Montbron in love--
already--with YOU?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: the pupil himself. It cannot be imposed from without, handed down
from above, superimposed upon the intelligence of the person taught.
It must find a response within him, give him the power and the
instrument wherewith he may exercise his own growing intelligence,
bring into action his own judgment and discrimination and thus
contribute to the growth of his intelligence. The civilized world is
coming to see that education cannot consist merely in the assimilation
of external information and knowledge, but rather in the awakening and
development of innate powers of discrimination and judgment. The
great disaster of ``sex education'' lies in the fact that it fails to
direct the awakened interests of the pupils into the proper channels
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