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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9008]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them hate so long as they fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them hate so long as they fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil events from evil causes spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil events from evil causes spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43683]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35583]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1890]]></link><description><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36224]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to the Iraqis in an Oct. 15 referendum. Legally we do not need the parliament to vote on the draft, but we need only a consensus so that all the Iraqis will say yes to the constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26458]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we do see the benefits of RFID to managing inventory for retailers, we think the item-level tagging poses a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39565]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we do see the benefits of RFID to managing inventory for retailers, we think the item-level tagging poses a serious issue for consumer privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sick LionA lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sick LionA lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known. The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them. After many of the beasts had thus disappeared, the Fox discovered the trick and presenting himself to the Lion, stood on the outside of the cave, at a respectful distance, and asked him how he was. I am very middling, replied the Lion, but why do you stand without? Pray enter within to talk with me. No, thank you, said the Fox. I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning. He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;  The voice I hear this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;  The voice I hear this passing night was heard   In ancient days by emperor and clown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/81]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/81</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[, The Hidden Power of the Heart -Sara Paddison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9080]]></link><description><![CDATA[, The Hidden Power of the Heart -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength, before going out to face the world again. "The thoughtful soul to solitude retires," said the poet of other and quieter times; but where is the solitude to which we can retire today? "Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still," is a wise and healing counsel; but how can it be followed in this day of the newspaper, the telephone, the radio and television? These modern playthings, like pet tiger cubs, have grown so large and dangerous that they threaten to devour us all. What was intended to be a blessing has become a positive curse. No spot is now safe from the world's intrusion. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today. What the world will do about it is their problem. Apparently the masses want it the way it is, and the majority of Christians are so completely conformed to this present age that they, too, want things the way they are. They may be annoyed a bit by the clamor and by the goldfish-bowl existence they live, but apparently they are not annoyed enough to do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially when one of 'em (Jackson) is a guard coach and the other one (Levingston) a big-man coach. That helps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially when one of 'em (Jackson) is a guard coach and the other one (Levingston) a big-man coach. That helps us out tremendously at both ends of the floor. They can provide us with that playoff, that championship, atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65625]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17873]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we came out in the second half -- once we kind of settled in -- and played pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31306]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we came out in the second half -- once we kind of settled in -- and played pretty well. We just made so many mistakes early that we let it get away from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It affects working waterfront, access, scenic view and character of a town. We're really trying to open that discussion and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It affects working waterfront, access, scenic view and character of a town. We're really trying to open that discussion and get towns to cooperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, in California I think you'll remember two years ago we had the siege, that happened in October in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, in California I think you'll remember two years ago we had the siege, that happened in October in the `90's, it always happens around the October, November months near the end of September, ... To not have a false sense of security because just because we've been slow, doesn't mean we're out of the woods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!  Without a mark, without a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!  Without a mark, without a bound,   It runneth the earth's wide regions round;    It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;     Or like a cradled creature lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  I look on all the world as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was regularly used as a propaganda medium... is full of the characteristic motifs of Advent and Epiphany, celebrating the blessings which the manifestation of each successive divine emperor was to bring to a waiting world. Among the adulatory formulas with which the emperor was acclaimed, Prof. Ethelbert Stauffer mentions, as going back to the first century, "Hail, Victory, Lord of the earth, Invincible, Power, Glory, Honour, Peace, Security, Holy, Blessed, Unequalled, Great, Thou alone worthy art, Worthy is he to inherit the Kingdom, Come, come, do not delay, Come again" (p. 155) [in Christ and the Caesars]. Indeed, one has only to read Psalm lxxii, in Latin, in the official language of the empire, to see that it is largely the same formal language which is used alike in the Forum for the advent of the emperor, and in the catacombs for the celebration of the "Epiphany of Christ" (p. 251). Who was worthy to ascend the throne of the universe and direct the course of history? Caesar, or Jesus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to pay money, you haven't won a thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37086]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to pay money, you haven't won a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short boughs, long vintage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short boughs, long vintage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47406]]></link><description><![CDATA[...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would rather have a wooden church with a splendid parson, than a splendid church with a wooden parson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is a cruelty To load a falling man. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56059]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is a cruelty To load a falling man. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56059</guid></item></channel></rss>