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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[So little done, so much to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27772]]></link><description><![CDATA[So little done, so much to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/89]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/89</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17911]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356]]></link><description><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he has only half a brain, while outside, in the world, he is expected to be an ambassador for Christ, a lay transmitter of faith. Outside, he is to be informed and vocal; inside, he must appear ignorant and mute as a sheep. Christians have within them many questions -- questions that are at once elementary and profound, questions that would ripple the water were they raised. However, because a Christian is supposed to have "answers", life's important questions are not discussed outside the church building; and, because the pastor is the educated, spiritual authority, they are not discussed inside either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3617]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently there was some bad blood between the two because of an incident which took place three to four years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently there was some bad blood between the two because of an incident which took place three to four years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sense of autonomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38389]]></link><description><![CDATA[sense of autonomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man'sfoot long enough to enable him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man'sfoot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a problem of timing for us. If the world championships were held earlier we would have time to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37196]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a problem of timing for us. If the world championships were held earlier we would have time to get all of our judges up to speed. The men's trial in January won't be affected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17144]]></link><description><![CDATA[From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness depends upon ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness depends upon ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are multiple complaints, then my suspicion would be somewhere between the refinery and the tank, the blend encountered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are multiple complaints, then my suspicion would be somewhere between the refinery and the tank, the blend encountered water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're a decent basketball team. I hope we can get better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're a decent basketball team. I hope we can get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23165]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse has gotten away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that every person is born with talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that every person is born with talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36924]]></link><description><![CDATA[For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47923]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10186]]></link><description><![CDATA["Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64595]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17103]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost some key games last year that we shouldn't have. We got off to a great start and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34262]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost some key games last year that we shouldn't have. We got off to a great start and then our hitting kind of fizzled out. We should be similar to last year, but with more experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The part of our social order which can or ought to be made a conscious product of human reason is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The part of our social order which can or ought to be made a conscious product of human reason is only a small part of all the forces of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they hold their tongues they cry out. [Lat., Cum tacent clamant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56280]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they hold their tongues they cry out. [Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9440</guid></item></channel></rss>