The winds may fell the massive oak, but bamboo, bent even to the ground, will spring upright after the passage of the storm. (Japanese Proverb)

The winds may fell the massive oak, but bamboo, bent even to the ground, will spring upright after the passage of the storm.

Japanese Proverb

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