Lao Tzu
The World Can't Be Improved
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                                                                    Item 29

"Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done.
The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it you will ruin it."

       Mitchell

"Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice, succeed.
The earth is like a vessel so sacred that at the mere approach of the profane it is marred."

       Brynner