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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12216</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[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,  And let's be red with mirth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18435]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,  And let's be red with mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60420]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dainties love shall beggars prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dainties love shall beggars prove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, ifhe is to be ultimately at peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21379]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, ifhe is to be ultimately at peace with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it;  And what that word did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it;  And what that word did make it,   I do believe and take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk of the devil, and his horns appear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk of the devil, and his horns appear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5825]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't always make us grateful, but being grateful will always make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't always make us grateful, but being grateful will always make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3267]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for a two-state solution is. Just saying 'a two-state solution' is too ambiguous. The vision has to spell out the details on final status issues such as Palestinian refugees, borders and Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He describes himself as a mild depressive, and he goes through just terrible suffering, much of it self-generated. And yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37099]]></link><description><![CDATA[He describes himself as a mild depressive, and he goes through just terrible suffering, much of it self-generated. And yet he's also an extremely buoyant person who finds a great deal in life to entertain and instruct and amuse him. He has a kind of vivacity about him. He's very funny, and he's very obsessed with certain themes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's a fabulous golf course. It's a great golf course to play match play on, and it's so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's a fabulous golf course. It's a great golf course to play match play on, and it's so easy for the fans to walk around and see other holes. It's a great venue for this event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53313]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ambition ends, happiness begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2365]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ambition ends, happiness begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom he was a piper's son, He learned to play when he was young;  Bug all the tune that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom he was a piper's son, He learned to play when he was young;  Bug all the tune that he could play   Was "Over the hills and far away."   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43500]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21767]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin andjoins the energy that created the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Now go to, reader, and according to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Now go to, reader, and according to the order of Paul's writing [in Romans], even so do thou. First behold thyself diligently in the law of God, and see there thy just damnation. Secondarily, turn thine eyes to Christ, and see there the exceeding mercy of thy most kind and loving Father. Thirdly, remember that Christ made not this atonement that thou shouldest anger God again; neither cleansed he thee, that thou shouldest return (as a swine) unto thine old puddle again: but that thou shouldest be a new creature and live a new life after the will of God and not of the flesh. And be diligent lest through thine own negligence and unthankfulness thou lose this favor and mercy again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57346]]></link><description><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were extremely happy with the way we came out tonight. Twenty-two points has been a halftime score for us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were extremely happy with the way we came out tonight. Twenty-two points has been a halftime score for us in some games. So that was nice. We knocked down some open shots. David and Jeff made some nice moves inside. We controlled the boards and were able to get the ball down the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2009</guid></item></channel></rss>