He was the more surprised at his daughter's wanton play of a fixed idea.

女儿竟是这样放肆地表达她顽固不化的思想，使他感到格外惊讶。

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You can't claim to have fixed problems unless there is clear evidence that you have done so even if the whole idea of clear evidence is a fiction.

你不能要求所有做过的事都有清晰的证据，才能把事情定下来，甚至有时候整个清晰的证据只不过是伪造的。

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They bring with them a fixed idea of what a university is all about, and are unexcited by what they consider their chancellor's unglamorous goal.

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Not least of which is the question of original sin, a tradition that seems harder and harder to reconcile with what science is telling us about human origins, because it presupposes a fixed idea of human nature.

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So, while we absolutely maintain a mandate of providing income to our shareholders, we wanted there to be a little less of an emphasis on an idea that there would be a fixed income payment on a quarterly basis.

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