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Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Great Way runs to left, to right, the ten thousand things depending on it, living on it, accepted by it.

Doing its work, it goes unnamed. Clothing and feeding the ten thousand things, it lays no claim on them and asks nothing of them. Call it a small matter. The ten thousand things return to it, thought it lays no claim on them. Call it great.

So the wise soul without great doings achieves greatness.

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