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"Way-making (dao) is really nameless (wuming). Were the nobles and kings able to respect this, All things (wanwu) would be able to develop along their own lines. Having developed along their own lines, were they to desire to depart from this, I would realign them With a nameless scrap of unworked wood. Realigned with this nameless scrap of unworked wood, They would leave off desiring. In not desiring, they would achieve equilibrium, And all the world would be properly ordered of its own accord."