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    "num": 77,
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    "title": "Chapter 77 — Heaven's Way",
    "of": 81,
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    "text": "## Chapter 77\n\n\nMay not the Way (or Tao) of Heaven be compared to the (method\n\nof) bending a bow? The (part of the bow) which was high is brought\nlow, and what was low is raised up. (So Heaven) diminishes where\nthere is superabundance, and supplements where there is deficiency.\n\nIt is the Way of Heaven to diminish superabundance, and to\nsupplement deficiency. It is not so with the way of man. He takes\naway from those who have not enough to add to his own superabundance.\n\nWho can take his own superabundance and therewith serve all under\nheaven? Only he who is in possession of the Tao!\n\nTherefore the (ruling) sage acts without claiming the results as\nhis; he achieves his merit and does not rest (arrogantly) in it:--he\ndoes not wish to display his superiority.",
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