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“So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other;”
― Tao Te Ching
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“Is it not because he has no personal and private ends, that therefore such ends are realised?”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends.”
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― Tao Te Ching
“The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.”
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