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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Current licensing practices already impose substantial costs and administrative burdens upon these [digital media] companies, and it would be untenable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Current licensing practices already impose substantial costs and administrative burdens upon these [digital media] companies, and it would be untenable and unfair to require them to shoulder additional costs with respect to these buffer copies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why join the navy if you can be a pirate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife;  Each season looked delightful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26543]]></link><description><![CDATA[No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife;  Each season looked delightful as it past,   To the fond husband and the faithful wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,   Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   After this it was noised abroad that Mr. Valiant-for-truth was taken with a summons by the same post as the other, and had this for a token that the summons was true, "That his pitcher was broken at the fountain." Eccl. 12:6. When he understood it, he called for his friends, and told them of it. Then said he, I am going to my Father's; and though with great difficulty I have got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who will now be my rewarder. When the day that he must go hence was come, many accompanied him to the river-side, into which as he went, he said, "Death, where is thy sting?" And as he went down deeper, he said, "Grave, where is thy victory?" 1 Cor. 15:55. So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42915]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29023]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62452]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were able to shoot the ball pretty well from the field. Shooting 47 percent has got to be our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were able to shoot the ball pretty well from the field. Shooting 47 percent has got to be our season high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61226]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria  Piscator quam piscis emi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria  Piscator quam piscis emi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   The gist of what Wycliffe has to say on every point is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   The gist of what Wycliffe has to say on every point is practically this, that where the Church and the Bible do not agree, we must prefer the Bible; that where authority and conscience appear to be rival guides, we shall be much safer in following conscience; and that where the letter and the spirit seem to be in conflict, the spirit is above the letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27765]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is now a broad consensus, that Israel will go ahead and build our borders to preserve Israel as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29092]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is now a broad consensus, that Israel will go ahead and build our borders to preserve Israel as a democratic Jewish state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their true function is to help equip the laity to be the Servant People. If they turn aside to rule and to secure their own status, they have betrayed the calling of the special ministry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes the Super Bowl even more important than it has ever been. The Super Bowl is the only thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38625]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes the Super Bowl even more important than it has ever been. The Super Bowl is the only thing left that really reaches the mass audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43110]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26506]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a good contrast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30681]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a good contrast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't like to think of anyone eating them, but we know that happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't like to think of anyone eating them, but we know that happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.(explaining to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57570]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.(explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, 1982)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26388]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really do face an incredible leadership vacuum in this state generally, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really do face an incredible leadership vacuum in this state generally,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not one nights ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not one nights ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day is short, the labor long, the workers are idle, and reward is great, and the Master is urgent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day is short, the labor long, the workers are idle, and reward is great, and the Master is urgent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42804]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29863]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by ‘about’ you mean ‘in a circle around,’ then yes, we’re doing something about the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66290]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by ‘about’ you mean ‘in a circle around,’ then yes, we’re doing something about the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have lots of warning in a matter of months, or we could have limited warning in a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38724]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have lots of warning in a matter of months, or we could have limited warning in a matter of weeks. It's very difficult to tell so we have to focus on surveillance as prevention and on response and recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10689]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10689</guid></item></channel></rss>