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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I was not really as good as I should have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not really as good as I should have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30518]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. He's fit back into a system he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not stood up and said that he's ready to talk about this issue, an issue that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38160]]></link><description><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not stood up and said that he's ready to talk about this issue, an issue that is truly worthy of debate. It's a call to action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14969]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started one year ago, and have had four drives since then. At the first drive we had 33 donations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36040]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started one year ago, and have had four drives since then. At the first drive we had 33 donations, and at the last one in July we had 99. It's amazing. This year we are hoping to have between 75-80 donations because it's the hardest time for the people who need blood to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lives well is learned enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lives well is learned enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they conquer who believe they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9698]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they conquer who believe they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is supporting the rotten governments in our countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want to try to bring them all together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot more choices start showing up? But, if you leave that first love, then, they all start drifting away? Is that love's way of testing your true feelings or to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils, choose neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils, choose neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, all that's really needed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, all that's really needed is to make any' good' choice, believe in it, go through with it, and accept the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dinner lubricates business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dinner lubricates business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64428]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57340]]></link><description><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65185]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56302]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4969]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63596]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew of compassion is a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew of compassion is a tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50840]]></link><description><![CDATA[However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure friendship's well-feigned blush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy  To see how plump my bags are and my barns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61402</guid></item></channel></rss>