Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.
("Tao Te Ching")
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
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Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space All are transient expressions of the Tao.
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