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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Tranquility is the old man's milk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tranquility is the old man's milk]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39462]]></link><description><![CDATA[[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, he seemed nervous about meeting everyone, about fitting in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62627]]></link><description><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's actually quite high. I do think people in small town Iowa love to talk about their town. On phone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39924]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's actually quite high. I do think people in small town Iowa love to talk about their town. On phone interviews, we could get through a survey in 20 minutes - [Yet] it [often] takes about an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,  And earth's base built on stubble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,  And earth's base built on stubble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33267]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and sit down right over there. Then there's people like myself who think that it's the greatest thing ever. And you can't get enough of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio by the end of 2005 save Nigeria. Basically the world, at the start of 2006, will look at who is late, and work to make that process move faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59076]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God if he appeared within us. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60767]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47714]]></link><description><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best:  Good husbandry baggeth   Up gold in his chest.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best:  Good husbandry baggeth   Up gold in his chest.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemical toilets were a luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemical toilets were a luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1087]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He looked like he was walking off the streets in Iraq, ... He had a bandanna on. He was very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30035]]></link><description><![CDATA[He looked like he was walking off the streets in Iraq, ... He had a bandanna on. He was very intense and serious. He laid out these wild posters across our conference room, covering most of the floor. It was an editor's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shopping for jeans can be such a pain. But these invite-only events create a party atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shopping for jeans can be such a pain. But these invite-only events create a party atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the team goes, other than Riley, we left some strokes out on the course today. We'll get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30426]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the team goes, other than Riley, we left some strokes out on the course today. We'll get back after it, starting in Pierre on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lisa and I had been really busy solo practitioners. We decided if we merged our practices and brought in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lisa and I had been really busy solo practitioners. We decided if we merged our practices and brought in a third dentist (Wargo), we'd be in a better position to serve our patients.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the water out of the steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh,  Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh,  Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,   And lonely want retir'd to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years?  They are leaning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years?  They are leaning their young heads against their mothers,   And that cannot stop their tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5897</guid></item></channel></rss>