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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by a winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48351]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by a winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Times will not comment on the meeting, but one can only imagine the president?s desperation. The problem was not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Times will not comment on the meeting, but one can only imagine the president?s desperation. The problem was not that the disclosures would compromise national security, as Bush claimed at his press conference. ...No, Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story?which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year?because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving with caution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48217]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my priorities is to go to the beach. It's been five years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36675]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my priorities is to go to the beach. It's been five years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flownaturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't hit it too well in the first few holes, when there was no wind. But I got it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't hit it too well in the first few holes, when there was no wind. But I got it up and down a few times, just steady stuff. And as the wind started to pick up, I kind of started to focus a little bit better and hit it closer and made a few putts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Alliance aims to achieve the same results in 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Alliance aims to achieve the same results in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My real fear is that there will be revenge acts. That has happened in the past. That could be very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33552]]></link><description><![CDATA[My real fear is that there will be revenge acts. That has happened in the past. That could be very bloody and lead to more serious problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22028]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,  For whose sweete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6140]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,  For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,--  That for ways that are dark   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,--  That for ways that are dark   And for tricks that are vain,    The heathen Chinee is peculiar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55215]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better, able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privilege is the greatest enemy of right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privilege is the greatest enemy of right]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13093]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,   And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face,  Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass;   As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60876]]></link><description><![CDATA[So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face,  Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass;   As yon summits soft and fair,    Clad in colours of the air,     Which to those who journey near,      Barren, brown, and rough appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I dream, I am ageless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I dream, I am ageless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47754]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885    After saying our prayers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885    After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't come into your life by accident. Everyone that crosses your path serves a purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62853]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't come into your life by accident. Everyone that crosses your path serves a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30747]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... Production wasn't as clean and neat as I'm hearing these days. They're not perfect, but they have an honest feeling, which is what I was going for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even Spring Training. He was gearing up for Opening Day. Our hope, and I think everyone's hope, would be it he could have through Spring Training, and then a determination be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63504]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis impious in a good man to be sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54627]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis impious in a good man to be sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41531</guid></item></channel></rss>