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It's best to start with loose arrangements and established conventions; adding constraints, contracts and Central Control only where absolutely necessary.

最好由松散的协议和已建立的惯例作为起始点；只在绝对必要时才添加约束、契约和中央控制。

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He had a point because philosophy distances us from conventions, from established assumptions, and from settled beliefs.

因为哲学的确将我们与习俗，既定假设以及原有信条相疏离。

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Both of these substances have well-established conventions for their use, and these conventions limit their social side-effects.

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Access to information combined with global supply and demand is reshaping established conventions and destroying old world definitions.

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In it, Woolf - using established letter-writing conventions - takes advantage of the time lapses between exchanges to recuperate, clarify, recast and take control of the argument.

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