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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61925]]></link><description><![CDATA[But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was surprised at the fact that AXA Financial had spent so much time and money trying to build DLJ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42445]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was surprised at the fact that AXA Financial had spent so much time and money trying to build DLJ, especially build its presence in Europe the last couple of years and now it's pulling the ripcord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55565]]></link><description><![CDATA[For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a relief to hear because I thought Peter had been very faithful to the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29229]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a relief to hear because I thought Peter had been very faithful to the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57938]]></link><description><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55840]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We would rather have this than have a baby being abandoned in a rubbish dump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55990]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits result from resisting temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits result from resisting temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure this agreement is a fair solution for the clubs involved and for the player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40192]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure this agreement is a fair solution for the clubs involved and for the player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25300]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! - Destruction of Sennacherib, The.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   The fall was simply this, that some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   The fall was simply this, that some creature -- that is, something which is not God -- took His place with man; and man, trusting the creature more than God, walked in its light -- or darkness -- rather than in fellowship with God. Righteousness comes back when man by faith is brought to walk with God again, and to give Him His true place by acting or being acted upon in all things according to His will. Anything, therefore, not of faith is sin. And all such sin is bondage. Self-will is bondage, for self-will or independence of God means dependence on a creature; and we cannot be dependent on a creature, be it what it may, without (more or less) becoming subject to it. What has not been given up for money, or for some creature's love? But who has ever thus served the creature more than the Creator without waking at last to feel he is a bondman? I say nothing of the worse bondage which comes from our self-will, in the indulgence of our own thoughts, or passions, or affections. Even the very energies of faith, while, as yet unchastened, it acts from self, ... may only bring forth more bondage... Who but God can set men free? And He sets them free as they walk with Him. All independence of Him is darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27793]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What used to seem inappropriate has become commonplace. The question is: Is Discovery going to make clear about whether Disney ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32181]]></link><description><![CDATA[What used to seem inappropriate has become commonplace. The question is: Is Discovery going to make clear about whether Disney funded the programs or provided any services? Essentially, if it's nothing more than an infomercial, will it be presented as such? Or will it be presented as an independent production that's separate from promoting a theme park?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how full of briars is this working-day world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51228]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how full of briars is this working-day world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because your trained for something doesn't mean your prepared for it. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because your trained for something doesn't mean your prepared for it. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[been given an opportunity and a chance and I intend to make a whole-hearted effort to not go down that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36306]]></link><description><![CDATA[been given an opportunity and a chance and I intend to make a whole-hearted effort to not go down that path. It scares me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going out to battle. But when he was compelled to grind instead of serving in the wars, he bewailed his change of fortune and called to mind his former state, saying, Ah! Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the battle. Forbear, said the Miller to him, harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17153]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards! Dick Maliska  Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. •Jeff Raskin   Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. •Anonymous   The Programmer's Time-Space Continuum is defined as "Programmers continuously space the time." •Leon Lanthier   Computers are useless - they only give you answers. •Pablo Picasso   "Paradosfunctionoracle" is the term used by technicians to describe the reason no one knows why your computer won't work. •J. H. Goldfuss   No machine will increase the possibilities of life. They only increase the possibilities of idleness. •John Ruskin   All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. •Anonymous  Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. •James Magary  Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. •E W Dijkstra  Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. •Popular Mechanics, 1949  Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. •Andy Rooney  Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. •Edward Shepherd Mead  A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. •John Gall   There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. •Bill Gates  If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. •Bill Gates  Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. •MG Siriam   Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. •Tom Fasulo   Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. •William Gibson   URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. •Chris Clark   My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. •Penn Jillett   We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. •Robert Wilensky   It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. •Denise Caruso   Wow! They've got the internet on computers now! •Homer Simpson  Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. •Scott Adams  I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. •Isaac Asimov   Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning. •Rich Cook   If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. •Robert Cringely   I try to get people to see what I have... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams. •Steve Jobs   The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. •Porterfield   People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago. •Anonymous  Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. •Anonymous  But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. •Bruce Leverett  Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63405]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44849]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32963]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are easy to get but hard to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are easy to get but hard to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10061]]></link><description><![CDATA[You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  It is easy to criticise the many failings of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  It is easy to criticise the many failings of the Church; it is all too easy to criticise the lives of those who profess and call themselves Christians; but I should say that it is almost impossible to read the Gospels thoroughly with adult, serious attention and then dismiss the central Figure as a mere human prophet or a tragic idealist. The reaction to such a study may indeed prove to be conversion or open hostility, but it would at least mean the end of childish and ill-informed attacks upon what is supposed to be the Christian religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7403</guid></item></channel></rss>