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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47445]]></link><description><![CDATA[To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our own level, or below it, is, I think, the distinct notion of envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19509]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will always be your child's favorite toy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will always be your child's favorite toy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29211]]></link><description><![CDATA["The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew Abood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. [Fr., Moi, je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54456]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. [Fr., Moi, je serai autocrate: c'est mon metier. Et le bon Dieu me pardonnnera: c'est son metier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  I will tell you what to hate: hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate intolerance, oppression, injustice; hate pharisaism. Hate them as Christ hated them, with a deep, living, godlike hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly impressed, for asking them to make a change in two weeks. It was a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;  Equal on Sunday in the pew, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;  Equal on Sunday in the pew,   On Monday in the mall.    For what avail the plough or sail,     Or land, or life, if freedom fail?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that child's behavior is so severe that it warrants a behavior plan, that plan needs to be followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37255]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that child's behavior is so severe that it warrants a behavior plan, that plan needs to be followed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to rush us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to rush us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? - The Color Purple, 1982.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied,  And therein do account myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54732]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied,  And therein do account myself well paid;   My mind was never yet more mercenary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is many China's enterprises do not know what they should sell to the United States and the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is many China's enterprises do not know what they should sell to the United States and the same is true with their US counterparts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a small segment complaining on their own. I spoke with a lot of Hispanic people about what's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29097]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a small segment complaining on their own. I spoke with a lot of Hispanic people about what's going on. They want their kids integrated. They want them to learn more English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43132]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your speech, Bush, is full of lies and full of unreasonable argument, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your speech, Bush, is full of lies and full of unreasonable argument,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farmers are pretty efficient, and grow a pretty good crop. We can prove that. It's just we need more uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farmers are pretty efficient, and grow a pretty good crop. We can prove that. It's just we need more uses for it, and use it at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24312]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: . . . . So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decrees was given at Shushan the palace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5065]]></link><description><![CDATA[criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winter's past or coming void of care,  Well pleased with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winter's past or coming void of care,  Well pleased with delights which present are,   Fair seasons, budding sprays, sweet-smelling flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have loved flowers that fade, Within those magic tents  Rich hues have marriage made   With sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16245]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have loved flowers that fade, Within those magic tents  Rich hues have marriage made   With sweet unmemoried scents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pressure, no diamonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1050]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pressure, no diamonds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the next few days, ... I will be explaining the American position to leaders in the countries I visit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the next few days, ... I will be explaining the American position to leaders in the countries I visit while making it clear that in confronting the clear and present danger posed by Iraqi lawlessness, the diplomatic string is running out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55526]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21686]]></link><description><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28054]]></link><description><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33258]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56382</guid></item></channel></rss>