Zhuangzi · 天運第十四
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意者其有機緘而不得已邪？
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意者其有機緘而不得已邪？Name the one, thing, or situation ↗意者其有機緘而不得已邪？Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗意者其有機緘而不得已邪？Read the relationship between clauses ↗意者其有機緘而不得已邪？Keep different negatives apart ↗孰隆施是？Locate the unknown ↗Watch recurrence: 者 × 4 意 × 2 其 × 2 而 × 2 不 × 2 邪 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 說林下第二十三不能自止無水者也。富之以涯，其富已足者也。人不能自止於足而亡，〓#其富之涯乎！」
老子 · 第三十章而不得已強。果而勿矜，果而勿伐，果而勿驕。果而不得已，是謂果而勿強。
韓非子 · 喻老第二十一而不能自：「臣愚患之智。如目也，能見百步之外而不能自見其睫。王之兵自敗於秦、晉，喪地數百里，此兵之弱也。
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- Work
- 莊子 · Zhuangzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Zhuang Zhou; the received collection includes multiple voices and layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0126 · base edition CHANT
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0126_014.txt, lines 29–33. ZHUANG 14.1.2 Guo Qingfan 493; Wang Shumin 505; Fang Yong 373; Chen Guying 360
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