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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64492]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man to turn his back on God is to turn towards death; it involves ultimately the renunciation of every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7565]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man to turn his back on God is to turn towards death; it involves ultimately the renunciation of every aspect of life. To deny God, man must ultimately deny that there is any law or reality. The full implications of this were seen in the [19th] century by two profound thinkers, one a Christian and the other a non-Christian.   [Friedrich W.] Nietzsche recognized fully that every atheist is an unwilling believer to the extent that he has any element of justice or order in his life, to the very extent that he is even alive and enjoys life. In his earlier writings, Nietzsche first attempted the creation of another set of standards and values, affirming life for a time, until he concluded that he could not affirm life itself nor give it any meaning, any value, apart from God. Thus Nietzsche's ultimate counsel was suicide; only then, [he asserted] can we truly deny God: and in his own life, this brilliant thinker -- one of the clearest in his description of modern Christianity and the contemporary issue -- did in effect commit a kind of psychic suicide.   The same concept was powerfully developed by [Fyodor M.] Dostoyevski, particularly in The Possessed, or, more literally, the Demon-Possessed. Kirilov, a thoroughly Nietzschean character, is very much concerned with denying God, asserting that he himself is God and that man does not need God. But at every point, Kirilov finds that no standard or structure in reality can be affirmed without ultimately asserting God, that no value can be asserted without being ultimately de rived from the Triune God. As a result, Kirilov committed suicide as the only apparently practical way of denying God and affirming himself -- for to be alive was to affirm this ontological deity in some fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set the ground rules and make sure it feels right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set the ground rules and make sure it feels right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19224]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I concede! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22243]]></link><description><![CDATA[I concede!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54782]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it is I ween   As ever on beauty's breast was seen;    There's nothing at all but love to pay;     Take it and wear it, but only stay!      Ah! Sir Hunter, what excellent taste!       I'm not--in such--particular--haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35525]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is no less real because it is of degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is no less real because it is of degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27613]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been remanded into judicial custody until August 27, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29899]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been remanded into judicial custody until August 27,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the elected sheriff, ... I serve the people. I don't serve the mayor. I don't serve some politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38228]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the elected sheriff, ... I serve the people. I don't serve the mayor. I don't serve some politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as there is life there is danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as there is life there is danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy as in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, all that's really needed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, all that's really needed is to make any' good' choice, believe in it, go through with it, and accept the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming men are haunted men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming men are haunted men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTY DAYS is a social, spiritual and learning experiment in which people experience the intensity of monastic life. The purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32900]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTY DAYS is a social, spiritual and learning experiment in which people experience the intensity of monastic life. The purpose is not religious conversion per se, but it is to expose people to the reality of unplugging from modern life completely and creating the opportunity to explore their beliefs in a contemplative environment. The tone of the series will be thoughtful and respectful to the brothers and sisters who have made their monastery home to our production team and the participants in the series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the heritages from history which prevents us so often from seeing the Church, with all its greatness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6676]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the heritages from history which prevents us so often from seeing the Church, with all its greatness and misery, in its true light, is the distinction between the "empirical" and the "ideal" Church. It is to such a degree an element of our thinking that we hardly notice it. It has been since the first centuries a standard view, a means to give account of the, indeed, often disappointing state and quality of Christian faith and practice in the Church as it appeared. As such it is understandable; but nevertheless it proceeds more from the counsels of worldly wisdom than from the faith-as-response by which the Church should live, and the call to incessant renewal under which the Church stands as "God's own household", "growing into a holy temple in the Lord". However stubborn and refractory the stuff of ordinary reality may be -- and it is -- the Church, though with clear realism seeing this reality, can never permit itself to put the divine indicatives and imperatives, which are her peculiar directives and points of orientation, behind considerations which are properly speaking worldly in character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang sweeter! I wonder if ever a rhyme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang sweeter! I wonder if ever a rhyme was rung but the thought surpassed the meter!  I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought till the cold stone echoed his ardent thought!   Or, if ever a painter with light and shade the dream of his inmost heart portrayed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38536]]></link><description><![CDATA[American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,  And great hearts expand   And grow one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,  And great hearts expand   And grow one in the sense of this world's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lucky Craft Pointer 100 has certainly been the big seller with my customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lucky Craft Pointer 100 has certainly been the big seller with my customers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21435]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21435</guid></item></channel></rss>