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"Nothing in the world is Softer or Weaker than water. But when it attacks what is hard and strong none of them can win out, because they have no way of affecting it. Softness overcomes what is hard Weakness overcomes what is unyielding. Everyone in the world understands it no one can practice it. And so the Wise Person says: Taking on a state's dirt makes one lord of its earth altars taking on a state's misfortunes makes one King of the world. Right words seem the opposite."
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Lao TzuBook
Tao Te Ching
Version: 9