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    "num": 10,
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    "title": "Chapter 10 — Embracing the One",
    "of": 81,
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    "text": "## Chapter 10\n\n\nWhen the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one\nembrace, they can be kept from separating. When one gives undivided\nattention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of\npliancy, he can become as a (tender) babe. When he has cleansed away\nthe most mysterious sights (of his imagination), he can become without\na flaw.\n\nIn loving the people and ruling the state, cannot he proceed\nwithout any (purpose of) action? In the opening and shutting of his\ngates of heaven, cannot he do so as a female bird? While his\nintelligence reaches in every direction, cannot he (appear to) be\nwithout knowledge?\n\n(The Tao) produces (all things) and nourishes them; it produces\nthem and does not claim them as its own; it does all, and yet does not\nboast of it; it presides over all, and yet does not control them.\nThis is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao).",
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