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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The Rich knowes not who is his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rich knowes not who is his friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62924]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats;  Chambers of the great are jails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats;  Chambers of the great are jails,   And head-winds right for royal sails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed(the price of the ticket), takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs. He promptly paid the bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:  Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire:   Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine June 19, 1996 Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  Many we have who plead themselves to be Christians. This might be allowed them, would they not do such things as the Christian religion abhors. But this is the least part of their claim. They will also be the only Christians, all others who differ from them -- however so falsely called -- being only a drove of unbelievers, hastening unto hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adults are obsolete children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adults are obsolete children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our outlook is correct, very rich valuations for the best tech stocks will persist, ... Maybe for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37714]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our outlook is correct, very rich valuations for the best tech stocks will persist, ... Maybe for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. He could have stood in Mr Young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  It was his steadfast and unalterable conviction that for a man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  It was his steadfast and unalterable conviction that for a man who has wrapped his will in God's will, put his life consciously into the stream of the divine Life, freed his soul from all personal ambitions, taken his life on trust as a divine gift -- that for such a man there is an over-ruling Providence which guards and guides him in every incident of his life, from the greatest to the least. He held that all annoyances, frustrations, disappointments, mishaps, discomforts, hardships, sorrows, pains, and even final disaster iteself, are simply God's way of teaching us lessons that we could never else learn. That circumstances do not matter, are nothing, but that the response of the spirit that meets them is everything; that there is no situation in human life, however apparently adverse, nor any human relationship, however apparently uncongenial, that cannot be made, if God be in the heart, into a thing of perfect joy; that, in order to attain this ultimate perfection, one must accept every experience and learn to love all persons... that the worth of life is is not to be measured by its results in achievement or success, but solely by the motives of the heart and the efforts of one's will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52743]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I picked up some software and some books and got online, ... and there were all these Danni Ashe pictures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I picked up some software and some books and got online, ... and there were all these Danni Ashe pictures all over the newsgroup. I started striking up conversations with people, saying, 'Hey, you know, hi, I'm Danni. Where'd you get that picture?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32614</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[Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money;...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of communication is the language of leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of communication is the language of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43942]]></link><description><![CDATA[This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted him to play. We thought we had a chance to have a decent team, and we knew he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted him to play. We thought we had a chance to have a decent team, and we knew he was a big part of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3866]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is more important than the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is more important than the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of the silver bow   Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread    Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below,     Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow,      Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even lessthan you settled for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even lessthan you settled for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is not the root cause of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is not the root cause of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman you were in league with that which is un-Christlike. Where I come from, a cockroach is a roach, and a cockerel is a rooster because they can't bring themselves to say cock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61107]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you deal in camels, make the doors high ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11148]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you deal in camels, make the doors high]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50542]]></link><description><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17919]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say there is no God...that we are squatting tenantsin the hostile house ofan absent slumlord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say there is no God...that we are squatting tenantsin the hostile house ofan absent slumlord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15039</guid></item></channel></rss>