Collecting and presenting status information should not become an end in itself.

收集和表达状态信息本身不应该成为一种终结。

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Don't let it become an end in itself - just a means of supporting the rest of your life.

它只是你生活的一种手段。

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Be careful, though, to keep efficiency in its place. Don't let it become an end in itself - just a means of supporting the rest of your life.

然而，要小心地让效率保持在它原有的位置，不要为了效率而效率。它只是你生活的一种手段。

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As the Onion summarized it, gridlock has become an end in itself.

FORBES: The Cordray Maneuver

But there is a feeling, too, that that target date of April 10th next year may have become an end in itself, not a means for pushing on with reform.

ECONOMIST: Romano Prodi, Italy��s would-be record-breaker

Through this performance lens, government operations become a way to drive better results, not an end in and of itself.

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