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"Heaven and earth are not humane (jen), They treat the ten thousand beings as straw dogs (ch'u kou). The sage is not humane (jen), He treats the hundred families as straw dogs (ch'u kou). Between heaven and earth, How like a bellows (t'o yo) it is! Empty and yet inexhaustible, Moving and yet it pours out ever more. By many words one's reckoning (shu) is exhausted. It is better to abide by the center (shou chung)."