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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Commercially available software should fit most needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commercially available software should fit most needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,   And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All literature is gossip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All literature is gossip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14160]]></link><description><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique  Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read but o'er the Stories Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile  And you shall find that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read but o'er the Stories Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile  And you shall find that the desire of glory   Was the last frailty wise men put of;    Be they presidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret; qui accepit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They now say this was about Ford 'refraining from choosing sides' by supporting gay groups. No. AFA said this was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38657]]></link><description><![CDATA[They now say this was about Ford 'refraining from choosing sides' by supporting gay groups. No. AFA said this was about Ford promoting 'gay marriage' by advertising its products to gay consumers, by providing its gay employees with company benefits, and by including sexual-orientation discrimination in the company's diversity training. Corporate America, meet with these extremists at your own risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women relate to Ivana because she suffered. If she is over the top with her wardrobe, or the things she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women relate to Ivana because she suffered. If she is over the top with her wardrobe, or the things she says, it is forgiven because she has been beaten down and she has risen to the top. America loves an underdog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which God gives to every person who has the use of reason. This knowledge is good ... but it does not bring with it any spiritual experience of God, for these graces are granted only to those who have a great love for Him. This fountain of love issues from our Lord alone, and no stranger may approach it. But knowledge of this kind is common to good and bad alike, since it can be acquired without love, ... and men of a worldly life are sometimes more knowledgeable than many true Christians although they do not possess this love. St. Paul describes this kind of knowledge: "If I had full knowledge of all things and knew all secrets, but had no love, I should be nothing." ... Some people who possess this knowledge become proud and misuse it in order to increase their personal reputation, worldly rank, honours and riches, when they should use it humbly to the praise of God and for the benefit of their fellow Christians in true charity... St. Paul says of this kind of knowledge: "Knowledge by itself stirs the heart with pride, but united to love it turns to edification." By itself this knowledge is like water, tasteless and cold. But if those who have it will offer it humbly to our Lord and ask for His grace, He will turn the water into wine with His blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   We know that one school of psychology already regards religion as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   We know that one school of psychology already regards religion as a neurosis. When this particular neurosis becomes inconvenient to the government, what is to hinder the government from proceeding to 'cure' It? Such 'cure' will , of course, be compulsory; but under the humanitarian theory it will not be called by the shocking name of Persecution. No one will blame us for being Christians, no one will hate us, no one revile us. The new Nero will approach us with the silky manners of a doctor, and though all will be in fact {compulsory}, all will go on within the unemotional therapeutic sphere where words like 'right' and 'wrong' , or 'freedom' and 'slavery' are never heard. And thus when the command is given, every prominent Christian in the land may vanish overnight into Institutions for the Treatment of the Ideologically Unsound, and it will rest with the expert gaolers to when (if ever) they are to emerge. But it will not be persecution. Even if the treatment is painful, even if it is life-long, even if if it is fatal, that will be only a regrettable accident, the intention was purely therapeutic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1454]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27849]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process here of learning to think movement. Clowns, dancers, mimes think movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process here of learning to think movement. Clowns, dancers, mimes think movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very afraid. We closed the offices for months. The mullahs went back to their homes. We didn't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very afraid. We closed the offices for months. The mullahs went back to their homes. We didn't know whether we would find another leader for the council.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!   Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;    A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;     Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,      Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,       All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea:        Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes         Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept          (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems,           That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep            And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was one of those who by fortune's boon Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50165]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was one of those who by fortune's boon Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon  In her mouth, not a wooden ladle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without danger we cannot get beyond danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has no borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has no borders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be true pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be true pretty much across gender, ethnicity and religion -- people of all types experience it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/69]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/69</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60225]]></link><description><![CDATA[In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that environment, it's only natural to expect the switch from labor into technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31063]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that environment, it's only natural to expect the switch from labor into technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633]]></link><description><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"  Vain hopes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"  Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast!   What man can look on Death unterrified?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the heritages from history which prevents us so often from seeing the Church, with all its greatness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6676]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the heritages from history which prevents us so often from seeing the Church, with all its greatness and misery, in its true light, is the distinction between the "empirical" and the "ideal" Church. It is to such a degree an element of our thinking that we hardly notice it. It has been since the first centuries a standard view, a means to give account of the, indeed, often disappointing state and quality of Christian faith and practice in the Church as it appeared. As such it is understandable; but nevertheless it proceeds more from the counsels of worldly wisdom than from the faith-as-response by which the Church should live, and the call to incessant renewal under which the Church stands as "God's own household", "growing into a holy temple in the Lord". However stubborn and refractory the stuff of ordinary reality may be -- and it is -- the Church, though with clear realism seeing this reality, can never permit itself to put the divine indicatives and imperatives, which are her peculiar directives and points of orientation, behind considerations which are properly speaking worldly in character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65457]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always hated that heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢d never be able to donate blood for someone else, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29334]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always hated that heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢d never be able to donate blood for someone else,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3979</guid></item></channel></rss>