Market mechanisms are simply means, not ends in themselves.

市场机制是只是手段，本身不是目的。

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Planning and measuring are not ends unto themselves but are tools that help the manager answer these questions.

计划和测量不是到他们自身的终结，而是帮助管理人员回答这些问题的工具。

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Finally, processes are not ends in themselves. They have a purpose that transcends and shapes all their constituent.

流程不是终点。它有个目标，这个目标凌驾并且塑造所有活动。

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Unlike kilims, these "pile" carpets are not flat, they are deep and soft because their surfaces are covered with the ends of thousands of pieces of yarn.

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I think that it's fair to say that everyone agrees on that, and that's not nothing but that's pretty much where the agreement ends.

大家都非常赞同这些明喻并不是无关紧要的，反而很大程度上终结了所有的争论。

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He is not simply a teacher of political pragmatism, of how to adjust means to fit the ends.

他不只是一位,政治实用主义教师，仅懂得如何调整方式来获致结果。

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Actually, no, we can't go home, because, as McCurry said later in the show, the common definition is where the debate begins, not ends.

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But tools are not ends in themselves.

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