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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54032]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48790]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played better. We may have won but, to be fair, we didn't play well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62933]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes the Super Bowl even more important than it has ever been. The Super Bowl is the only thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38625]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes the Super Bowl even more important than it has ever been. The Super Bowl is the only thing left that really reaches the mass audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The LSE is the crown jewel of European exchanges. It's the only brand strong enough to get listing revenues from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The LSE is the crown jewel of European exchanges. It's the only brand strong enough to get listing revenues from companies...The only way for someone to own U.K. stock trading is to own the LSE.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2579]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14860]]></link><description><![CDATA[How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;  All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, ... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency... Life is pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially with the murder, people are wondering what's going on. I don't even want to really say anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially with the murder, people are wondering what's going on. I don't even want to really say anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dancing on a volcano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dancing on a volcano.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those are legal. The 9/11 (terrorist attack) was not about box cutters, it was about (pilot) doors people could open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean. [Lat., Vicisti, Galloloae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean. [Lat., Vicisti, Galloloae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   Christians in their relationships should be the most human people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   Christians in their relationships should be the most human people you will ever see. This speaks for God in an age of inhumanity and impersonality and facelessness. When people look at us, their reaction should be, "These are human people" -- human, because we know that we differ from the animal, the plant, and the machine; and that personality is native to what has always been [human]. If they cannot look upon us and say, "They are real people", nothing else is enough. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65104]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as you're not wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is thefourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effectiveself-management possible. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21559]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is thefourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effectiveself-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choicesand to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather thanto be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developedthrough the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how touse this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul is healed by being with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul is healed by being with children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the breasts of women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the breasts of women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We expect an ample supply of fuel, but it's going to be almost out of reach of the normal working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33828]]></link><description><![CDATA[We expect an ample supply of fuel, but it's going to be almost out of reach of the normal working man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1093]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43580]]></link><description><![CDATA[After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Step by step and the thing is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Step by step and the thing is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item></channel></rss>