So the purpose of each and every thought is to guide the action, not to be judged by people like a work of literature.

所以任何一种思想的目的皆是为了指导人的行为，而不是文学作品般让人来品头论足的。

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Physicians increasingly can call on a growing literature of evidence-based medicine to guide the process so that benefit is maximized, while respecting individual variations among different patients.

医生越来越依靠不断增加的循证医学文献来指导这一过程，为的是使患者获益最大化，并能注重不同患者间个体的差异。

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Founded in 1898, the firm, with its famous Readers Guide to Periodical Literature and other high-quality library indexes, long occupied a comfortable niche: collecting, analyzing and cross-referencing published works.

FORBES: Mousetrapped

This is an excellent, and massive, guide to the important works in Chinese literature up to 1911.

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