The computer doesn't mimic human thought; it reaches the same ends by different means.

计算机模仿不了人类的思维；它通过不同的方式达到相同的目的。

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Instrumental ties predominate in secondary groups; we perceive people as means to ends rather than as ends in their own right.

工具性关系在次级群体中占主导地位；我们把人当作达成目的的手段，而不是目的本身。

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President Assad noted that dialogue was the best means to end long-standing disputes with Tehran, arguing that any attempt to contain a country ends by strengthening it.

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Turning from means to ends, what about self-interest?

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It is nothing more than banker-speak in service of their own means to their profitable ends.

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They discussed at length different modalities, different outcomes, different means to get to the ends that Ben already has described -- and with an open door.

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