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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42895]]></link><description><![CDATA[So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.' (on his 11-year-old son's reaction after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.' (on his 11-year-old son's reaction after he took the job with the Boilermakers)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and... SNAP! The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39325]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and... SNAP! The job's a game!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life is my argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63708]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life is my argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the popular*not the papal but poplars.* not in the sense of ephemeral famebut what the people want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19791]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone with myself. Shrinking from any deep self-scrutiny is by no means an uncommon thing, and often goes far to explain the feverish restlessness with which a world-loving heart plunges into perpetual rounds of gaieties and dissipations; they serve as an escape from troublesome questions about the soul, and help to get rid of the clamours of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31750]]></link><description><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, probably don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, probably don't show up in the morning paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29464]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18199]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   There lies a lonely grave;    But no man built that sepulcher,     And no man saw it e'er,      For the angels of God upturned the sod       And laid the dead man there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39273]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56555]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament of beauty is suspect,   A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.    So thou be good, slander doth but approve     Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;      For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,       And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below,  Which always find us young   And always keep us so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below,  Which always find us young   And always keep us so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12442]]></link><description><![CDATA[By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got kicked on the inside at the end of the game in Portland. It was a bone bruise. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got kicked on the inside at the end of the game in Portland. It was a bone bruise. It was real puffy and stiff, but the swelling has gone down a little bit. I never had one like this, on the inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  [Christ] tells us plainly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  [Christ] tells us plainly, and without any qualifications, that we are involved in a war in which there is no room for neutrals. Yet people attempt to evade His statement. Generally speaking, these are the very people who are the quickest in laying the blame upon God for all the sorrow and sin in the world. They argue that He could prevent it. They excuse their own do-nothing attitude by making of evil's apparent predominance a ground for doubt of His loving kindness. It never seems to occur to them to look for the cause in mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam has a good defense in front of him that is playing better and he has been playing better as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam has a good defense in front of him that is playing better and he has been playing better as the season has progressed. I think the experiences he had last year, more or less being thrown into the fire, are benefiting him this season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the suppressed word is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the suppressed word is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45653]]></link><description><![CDATA[if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63256]]></link><description><![CDATA[America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43223]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It reports the acts of violence against Israelis but never mentions the illegal acts on the Palestinians and the militants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It reports the acts of violence against Israelis but never mentions the illegal acts on the Palestinians and the militants fighting for peace on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Belief in God through Christ is the most important of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Belief in God through Christ is the most important of all aids to the following of Christ, but (let us never forget) the following is the great thing. To those who, by whatever means they are attracted to Him, really seek to do God's will as He revealed it, Christ will prove a Saviour -- a Saviour from sin, a Saviour from the power of sin here, and from the misery which sin brings with it here and hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36279</guid></item></channel></rss>