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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune changes not birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune changes not birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started playing a little bit soft, playing some zone. Probably shouldn't have done it. Probably should have just kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35372]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started playing a little bit soft, playing some zone. Probably shouldn't have done it. Probably should have just kept on going and kept on grinding. But the third quarter was lights out. That was an awesome performance out of the kids, and we got turnovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the public really is going to react to this is if we can get through the legislative process. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38379]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the public really is going to react to this is if we can get through the legislative process. And we don't feel it's worth going too far with it right now because we don't know what will happen at the legislature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3648]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has some more things to learn, but he'll learn them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has some more things to learn, but he'll learn them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep. On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted and squeaked and resisted violently. The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, saying, He often handles us, and we do not cry out. To this the Pig replied, Your handling and mine are very different things. He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40121]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living standards are belied by the evidence,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18050]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's almost at the top, but not quite. There's room for some growth. He's already had such a tremendous impact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38624]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's almost at the top, but not quite. There's room for some growth. He's already had such a tremendous impact, but I think he's come close to maxing out the benefit for golf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy---something like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from our own;   Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;    Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,     Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow  Should prize the Topaz' amber hue-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow  Should prize the Topaz' amber hue--   Emblem of friends and lovers true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40941]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference this year is we're not giving away points. This team is special. We're such a good defensive team, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference this year is we're not giving away points. This team is special. We're such a good defensive team, we know we have a chance to get a result whether we're home or away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10087]]></link><description><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,   Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that I am happy is an understatement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41906]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that I am happy is an understatement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vocation to marriage is a vocation to glorify God in a particular state with its necessary rights and duties. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6668]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vocation to marriage is a vocation to glorify God in a particular state with its necessary rights and duties. It can only be combined with the vocation of a pioneer missionary of the classic type if matrimony is felt to be spiritually neutral, irrelevant to God's calling. Marriage can be irrelevant only if we believe that the body -- matter -- is neutral, irrelevant, or evil. Man can not believe that and believe the Christian faith. God made matter, and was incarnate in it: the comparison of the relation of husband and wife to that between Christ and the Church naturally follows. But this conclusion is not always drawn, for orthodox Christians are often prone to speak and behave as if the Lord... became not flesh but spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone seemed really calm and accepting; no one was irate. I think once everyone was fully informed of what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone seemed really calm and accepting; no one was irate. I think once everyone was fully informed of what was going on and where to go, they seemed to react better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a team without a lot of respect all year. I guarantee there wasn't many picking us third (in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31610]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a team without a lot of respect all year. I guarantee there wasn't many picking us third (in the state tournament).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47491]]></link><description><![CDATA[War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27619]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day,  Which now shows all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51533]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day,  Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,   And by and by a cloud takes all away!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  God hath work to do in this world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The years of slavery are past, The Belgian rejoices once more;  Courage restores to him at last   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The years of slavery are past, The Belgian rejoices once more;  Courage restores to him at last   The rights he held of yore.    Strong and firm his grasp will be--     Keeping the ancient flag unfurled      To fling its message on the watchful world:       For king, for right, for liberty.        [Fr., Apres des siecles d'esclavage,         Le Belge sortant du tombeau,          A reconquis par son courage,           Son nom, ses droits et son drapeau,            Et ta main souveraine et fiere,             Peuple desormais indompte,              Grava sur ta vieille banniere,               Le Roi, la loi, la liberte.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,   Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215</guid></item></channel></rss>