It's been time since 1776, or slightly before that, for us to open up to other faiths and to not be fixated on that.

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Consider, for example, the old axiom that entrepreneurs must be unwaveringly fixated on a single goal.

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You know, his eyes are just fixated on the camera and he looked to be okay.

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Many European governments, for instance, are fixated on cutting their deficits, when they should also be trying harder to shake up their labour and product markets.

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That would be a noble gesture, but shareholders are better served by managers who are fixated on the bottom line.

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When Maura Rhodes, a mom of four in Montclair, New Jersey. mentioned that she didn't want her kids to grow up to be rude or ugly, her 10-year-old daughter, Eliza, fixated on the wrong message.

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This can be a problem even in the best universities: students feel short-changed by professors fixated on crawling along the frontiers of knowledge with a magnifying glass.

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If popular culture is fixated on hero-worship that promotes a protagonist-antagonist framework, then unilateral sentiments can be expected.

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