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When people call one thing beautiful,
They generate a contrast, and thus
Ugliness is also brought into being.
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When you declare one thing to be good,
Others will see its opposite as bad.
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Any idea, brought to their attention,
Stimulates its opposite idea to be with them also.
When they think of something as difficult,
It is in relation to easy.
If something is thought to be long,
It is in relation to short.
When one thing is called up,
It is in relation to down.
If they hear a sound,
It is in relation to a silence. And
When you call one side the front,
The other side automatically becomes the back.
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You may take care of your life and its problems
With special kinds of attractive actions.
Attractive actions draw out the proper kind of reactions. And
You may teach others with a special kind of teaching,
Which will draw out a proper kind of learning from these others.
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Everything that can happen will happen, and
You may draw it out at any time.
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You may create as you wish, and
There is no need for you to own things;
You may control the reactions of things, and
There is no need for you to force them;
You may accomplish whatever needs to be done, and
There is no need for you to take credit for it.
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If you are not seen doing something,
Then no one will seek to prevent you from doing it.

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