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In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

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Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Difficult Easy Meet Taoism
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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Arrive Artist Change Good Intuition
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them… If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
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Below Humility King Lying People
A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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Care Clay Form Space Vessel
Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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REquired Take Taoism Temper World
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Accomplish Action Inspirational Integral
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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Desire Men Taoism Themselves
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Accomplish Doing Master Nothing
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Fact Known Overcoming Practice
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
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Desire Earth Inspirational Move
Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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Fail Honor People

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