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“Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice.
— Tao Te Ching, ch. 78 – tr. James Legge (1891)
Tao Te Ching, ch. 78 – tr. James Legge (1891)
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