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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Every picture tells a story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every picture tells a story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49044]]></link><description><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11991]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes a great row but does nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51150]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes a great row but does nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was our father no one man can replace him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36747]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was our father no one man can replace him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant,  With cavaliers are cavaliers   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant,  With cavaliers are cavaliers   And with the saints, a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question. In this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question. In this way, the international community can feel confident in Iran's statements that its nuclear program serves only peaceful intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a short series on prayer:  Even if all the things that people prayed for happened -- which they do not -- this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic -- a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63672]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   Is not a woman's part.    If man come not to gather     The roses where they stand,      They fade among their foliage,       They cannot seek his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   Evil can be interpreted as guilt only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   Evil can be interpreted as guilt only where human existence is understood as personal, and that means where the existence of man is understood to be in responsibility to the Divine Thou. This is the depth of human distress, that we are separated from God, that our communion with Him is destroyed, that man has emancipated himself (has taken himself out of the hand of God) and has become independent, his own master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. shares. It has nothing to do with economic fundamentals in Japan, which have not worsened at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  Never do anything through strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  Never do anything through strife, or emulation, or vainglory. Never do anything in order to excel other people, but in order to please God, and because it is His will that you should do everything in the best manner that you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45657]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate all children of precocious talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate all children of precocious talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked Indiana as our location for many reasons, one of which is soybean availability, access to transportation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34592]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked Indiana as our location for many reasons, one of which is soybean availability, access to transportation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26353]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon -- anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine captain. The only fun of being a Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but definitely recognized an outer light, fair as the sun, clear as the moon, terrible as an army with banners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61772]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that just inspires me even more, ... If you can't get inspired by what he did, then you don't have a pulse because that was awesome the way he won that tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,  Far off and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10817]]></link><description><![CDATA[List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,  Far off and faint, and melting into air,   Yet not to be mistaken. Hark again!    Those louder cries give notice that the bird,     Although invisible as Echo's self,      Is wheeling hitherward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all make mistakes but one has to move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37717]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all make mistakes but one has to move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief,  The doves of Noah ne'er had roost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief,  The doves of Noah ne'er had roost   Nor found an olive-leaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65433]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore - Just at the brink of ruin not before - The danger past, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore - Just at the brink of ruin not before - The danger past, both are alike requited; God is forgotten and the soldier slighted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25811]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27660</guid></item></channel></rss>