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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19342]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If we would indeed know God in growing intimacy, we must go this way of renunciation. And if we are set upon the pursuit of God, He will sooner or later bring us to this test. Abraham's testing was, at the time, not known to him as such, yet if he had taken some course other than the one he did, the whole history off the Old Testament would have been different. God would have found His man, no doubt, but the loss to Abraham would have been tragic beyond the telling. So we will be brought one by one to the testing place, and we may never know when we are there. At that testing place there will be no dozen possible choices for us; just one and an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid pudding against empty praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid pudding against empty praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a big deal. We've got good players behind him and we're ready to go. That's life. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a big deal. We've got good players behind him and we're ready to go. That's life. It's a window of opportunity for those two kids and they need to jump on it and go get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the final leg. I am positive that these countries will help extinguish the debt, which was mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28944]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the final leg. I am positive that these countries will help extinguish the debt, which was mostly direct transfers to the Iraqi central bank to finance the war with Iran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19608]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'   To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight,  Her young ones in her nest, against the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62381]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight,  Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonderful thing about this campus is because we have such a diverse student body in terms of representation, any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonderful thing about this campus is because we have such a diverse student body in terms of representation, any student coming to IU will meet students like themselves, ... (Students) also will meet people totally and completely different, literally from all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hilary and Art are both pretty young, they were just promoted, and this was their big chance after waiting in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hilary and Art are both pretty young, they were just promoted, and this was their big chance after waiting in the wings. Now it's being pulled out from under them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom triumphs over chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom triumphs over chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The education of the will is the object of our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The education of the will is the object of our existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9371]]></link><description><![CDATA[One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be so humble - you are not that great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be so humble - you are not that great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22317]]></link><description><![CDATA[If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28141]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  How blest to the toiler his hour of release   When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28425]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of guilty or not guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. [Fr., Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise,  Abime tout plutot; c'est l'esprit de l'Eglise.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores it's called partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores it's called partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count on the defense to make plays. That's what's going to win us games in the playoffs. We just have to keep playing hard and finish games and we'll have a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19805]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/992]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors are being cautiously optimistic. There's a desire to put money back into the market based on a feeling that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors are being cautiously optimistic. There's a desire to put money back into the market based on a feeling that the worst of the economy may be behind us, ... However, there's not enough evidence of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64767]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36157]]></link><description><![CDATA[White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an entire color family. White is the neutral of the season against which all other colors are paired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first year for this. The productions are grad student directed, designed and all student run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first year for this. The productions are grad student directed, designed and all student run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest,  Such as I love; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15594]]></link><description><![CDATA[This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest,  Such as I love; and you among the store,   One more, most welcome, makes my number more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind belief is dangerous. - Luyia , Western Kenya ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blind belief is dangerous. - Luyia , Western Kenya]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,   Men would be angels, angels would be gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48199</guid></item></channel></rss>