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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63096]]></link><description><![CDATA[An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi,  Tremar non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi,  Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39317]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, the same ritual as in the wild.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54444]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedest the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it counted the most, that's when we started losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40798]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it counted the most, that's when we started losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17270]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   As for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   As for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in the world, he was so far from wondering at them that, on the contrary, he was surprised that there were not more, considering the malice sinners were capable of... For his part, he prayed for them: but, knowing that God could remedy the mischiefs they did, when He pleased, he gave himself no further trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The early bird gets the worm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The early bird gets the worm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the old assurance and enthusiasm to cool below the temperature at which big things get done, is always whimpering and complaining about something, has developed a foolish trick of gathering into corners in discouraged groups and bleating disconsolately that God seems to be strangely little in our day, the very mood that so maddened the Hebrew prophets that they itched to lay violent hands upon their countrymen, and literally shake it out of them. We Church people have become so prone to loud and abusive self-depreciation that the thing amounts to a disease... and though these doleful spirits are not altogether serious, the world is listening, and takes us, not unnaturally, at our own dismal and unflattering valuation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, but they have children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll put a spoke among your wheels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll put a spoke among your wheels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On offense, it's important for us to have good cuts and a lot of movement off the ball. Once we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39640]]></link><description><![CDATA[On offense, it's important for us to have good cuts and a lot of movement off the ball. Once we catch the ball, we have to be very strong with it. Quick guys usually have quick hands and step in the passing lanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on the social body; but unlike medical surgeons, reformers are not on guard against unpredictable side effects which may divert the course of reform toward unwanted results. Moreover, quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a great group of guys. They have a real exciting show, fun, high-energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39709]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a great group of guys. They have a real exciting show, fun, high-energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what youdo. Attitude determines how well you do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what youdo. Attitude determines how well you do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By refusing to implement the women’s contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10028]]></link><description><![CDATA[By refusing to implement the women’s contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining virtually every existing opportunity for women business owners to break into the the good ol’ boy network of federal contracting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Highness, we are at a critical juncture in our nation's history. The disruption of our oil supply was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Highness, we are at a critical juncture in our nation's history. The disruption of our oil supply was the final straw. It wrecked the economy. Japan is in ruins; millions are out of work. We must repair the damage and ensure it never happens again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,   Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36199]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to Gotham, where I saw many who were fools, if not all. [Lat., Veni Gotham, ubi multos,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to Gotham, where I saw many who were fools, if not all. [Lat., Veni Gotham, ubi multos,  Si non omnes, vidi stultos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44913]]></link><description><![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12008</guid></item></channel></rss>