Sure, it seems gimmicky and unnecessary, but we discovered that we used this feature more often than we thought we would.

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At Ockham, we often like to check in on the prevailing school of thought among Wall Street analysts.

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We often associate art with creation, admittedly a perfectly rational thought.

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In other words, we can gesture more than we say, because gesture comes from our unconscious minds and is often way ahead of our conscious thought.

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And many jobs that we might once have thought of as being pretty close to heavy-duty combat, and which are often quite combat-oriented, are open to women, many of the piloting jobs, for example.

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And, so often forgotten when we come together to mourn the end of a video game, let us also spare a thought for the hard-working employees of BioWare, who waved their beautiful creation out into the world a mere month ago, only to see it hit repeatedly with Internet hammers.

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