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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44742]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live on earth, variously impeded: by evil in ourselves or in others. Not to practice them is to abandon our humanity. To practice them spontaneously and delightfully is not yet possible. This situation creates the category of duty, the whole specifically moral realm. It exists to be transcended. Here is the paradox of Christianity. As practical imperatives for here and now, the two great commandments have to be translated "Behave as if you loved God and man". For no man can love because he is told to. Yet obedience on this practical level is not really obedience at all. And if a man really loved God and man, once again this would hardly be obedience; for if he did, he would be unable to help it. Thus the command really says to us, "Ye must be born again". Till then, we have duty, morality, the Law. A schoolmaster, as St. Paul says, is to bring us to Christ. We must expect no more of it than of a schoolmaster; we must allow it no less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41766]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46044]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26155]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By refusing to implement the women’s contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10028]]></link><description><![CDATA[By refusing to implement the women’s contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining virtually every existing opportunity for women business owners to break into the the good ol’ boy network of federal contracting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is possible is our highest duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13084]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is possible is our highest duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Other sins find their vent in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you see a fellow-creature in trouble, remember that he is a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you see a fellow-creature in trouble, remember that he is a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trees of liferandomly growbut the graves of Arlingtonare set in rows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trees of liferandomly growbut the graves of Arlingtonare set in rows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.   The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu   You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. •Mumon  Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. •Zen Saying  No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. •Tilopa   When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. •Ying-An   There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. •Yuan-Wu  The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. •Robert M. Pirsig  Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. •Zen Proverb  Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27734]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've gotten a lot more people involved (since King's injury). Their roles changed. I knew they all had it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've gotten a lot more people involved (since King's injury). Their roles changed. I knew they all had it in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66058]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you're ever living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you're ever living is in this moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed   Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We batted ourselves into a very good position and then batted ourselves into a very bad position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37915]]></link><description><![CDATA[We batted ourselves into a very good position and then batted ourselves into a very bad position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden? [Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden? [Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it,  No, not a shred of it,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it,  No, not a shred of it,   In all the spread of it,    From foot to head,     Not heroes bled for it,      Faced steel and lead for it,       Precious blood shed for it,        Bathing in red.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First we make our habits, then our habits make us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18512]]></link><description><![CDATA[First we make our habits, then our habits make us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when silence has the loudest voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21654]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when silence has the loudest voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23068]]></link><description><![CDATA["Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   There are... few stronger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient as thou art,   Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure    Of those physicians that first wounded thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountains of tears. [Lat., Fons lacrymarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountains of tears. [Lat., Fons lacrymarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. That's simply not realistic. Until that kind of projection is made, a table of this sort is not complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5718]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5718</guid></item></channel></rss>