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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An excess of courtesy is discourtesy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14442]]></link><description><![CDATA[An excess of courtesy is discourtesy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2051]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43460]]></link><description><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future. Instead the bill ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29410]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future. Instead the bill allows big oil companies to pollute water supplies, plunder the Treasury and attack our coastlines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29787]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already political, and the target now is the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61952]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever hatred smiles, love lies powerless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever hatred smiles, love lies powerless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60231]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30923]]></link><description><![CDATA[taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on that Saturn, we might have been on the way. But then the Russians might have got to the moon first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and other homeland security needs that the Congress and president need to act on, ... Funds for these urgent priorities were cut in the 2002 supplemental spending bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  Paul does not forbid you to use rites and ceremonies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  Paul does not forbid you to use rites and ceremonies, but it is not his wish that he who is free in Christ should be bound by them. He does not condemn the law of works if only one uses it lawfully. Without these things perhaps you will not be pious; but they do not make you pious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right now to dredge out an area around Pier 6 so we can bring in barges and help facilitate the removal of the debris. But it's going to take months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it's looking like I'm just opening it up for (quarterback Tim Rattay), ... because I don't think he's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29471]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it's looking like I'm just opening it up for (quarterback Tim Rattay), ... because I don't think he's going to pass it to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hacer mal viene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha, facilmente se aprende el hacerle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22945]]></link><description><![CDATA[People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made several films that haven't been shown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made several films that haven't been shown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course he's going to tell you about all the great benefits, ... He's going to stand on the table ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course he's going to tell you about all the great benefits, ... He's going to stand on the table and dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18328]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving opens the way for receiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving opens the way for receiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe--  Sailed on a river of crystal light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe--  Sailed on a river of crystal light   Into a sea of dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It felt like people were squeezing on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail,  And give her to the God of storms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail,  And give her to the God of storms,   The lightning and the gale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50825]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My impression so far is there's not a lot of foot traffic going by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29348]]></link><description><![CDATA[My impression so far is there's not a lot of foot traffic going by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This aircraft signifies many rescues. Many men were saved because this aircraft was able to get to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36791]]></link><description><![CDATA[This aircraft signifies many rescues. Many men were saved because this aircraft was able to get to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get to confident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26896]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like a Matt Groening is a fan of the show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do the work they've been contracted to perform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only about the ones that are still here that we worry about but also about the others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33334]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only about the ones that are still here that we worry about but also about the others that are still in Louisiana. They are still trying to get pets out of the city. Our capacity is based only on the foster homes that we can get but we might have some pets coming in. That is a possibility. The need is still there. Most rescue groups get broadcast messages on animal in distress and pet finders and they are still trying to find homes for these pets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41177</guid></item></channel></rss>