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He is the author of a forthcoming book titled Good Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict.
Boaz Atzili: The 1967 Borders: No Legal Basis, No Power Basis, but Permanent Boaz Atzili 2011
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Fixity of central effect, inhibitory or excitatory respectively, has to be accepted for the individual afferent fibre acting in a specified direction, i.e. on a specified individual effector unit.
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Fixity and rigidity in social life would give place to flexibility and wise continual adaptation.
Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman
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Fixity of attention depends on slow breathing; quick or uneven breaths are an inevitable accompaniment of harmful emotional states: fear, lust, anger.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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Fixity of attention depends on slow breathing; quick or uneven breaths are an inevitable accompaniment of harmful emotional states: fear, lust, anger.
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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Fixity of habit may mean that something has a fixed hold upon us, instead of our having a free hold upon things.
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916
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The recollection brought back again to Dale the words spoken by the master at the close of the races: "Fixity of purpose ... there is almost nothing that fixity of purpose will not accomplish."
Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns W. P. Shervill 1915
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Fixity is a great virtue in the discipline of the soul.
The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer 1817-1893 1907
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Fixity helps to engender firm habit, mental bias, and moral inclination.
The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer 1817-1893 1907
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Fixity of habit may mean that something has a fixed hold upon us, instead of our having a free hold upon things.
Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education John Dewey 1905
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