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"Reason is empty, but its use is inexhaustible. In its profundity, verily, it resembleth the father of the ten thousand things. It will blunt its own sharpness, Will its tangles adjust; It will dim its own radiance And be one with its dust. Oh, how calm it seems to remain! I know not whose son it is. Before the Lord, Reason takes precedence."

Author

Lao Tzu

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"Reason is empty, but its use is inexhaustible. In its profundity, verily, it resembleth the father of the ten thousand things. It will blunt its own sharpness, Will its tangles adjust; It will dim its own radiance And be one with its dust. Oh, how calm it seems to remain! I know not whose son it is. Before the Lord, Reason takes precedence."

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