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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64303]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20328]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35982]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in need, this amounts to exorbitant pricing and that company will answer for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66628]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That almost makes me want to do it more because with the high cholesterol and now this happening, I feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32114]]></link><description><![CDATA[That almost makes me want to do it more because with the high cholesterol and now this happening, I feel like things aren't going to get easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48408]]></link><description><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When taken To be well shaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26687]]></link><description><![CDATA[When taken To be well shaken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our praises are our wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our praises are our wages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get a certain amount of cachet. The more people that know about your stuff, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34580]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get a certain amount of cachet. The more people that know about your stuff, the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fascists cannot argue, so they kill ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fascists cannot argue, so they kill]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment. Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danny and his staff have represented Duquesne with class. I thanked him for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danny and his staff have represented Duquesne with class. I thanked him for that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6087]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be able to do quite a bit from home, and when I commute, it won't be bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be able to do quite a bit from home, and when I commute, it won't be bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11389]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66315]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had neither seen it nor knew anything about the notices, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38771]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had neither seen it nor knew anything about the notices,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! [Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris wrapped in night! half nebulousThe moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs..A lovely frame for this wild battlescene Beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paris wrapped in night! half nebulousThe moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs..A lovely frame for this wild battlescene Beneath the vapor's floating scarves, the SeineTrembles, mysterious, like a magic mirrorCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are games in which it is better to lose than win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50893]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are games in which it is better to lose than win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18584]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone started shooting, and they had their caribou. They came to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone started shooting, and they had their caribou. They came to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, isstronger than any physical force in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, isstronger than any physical force in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38358]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the antidote to despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the antidote to despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three,  Will fill the chaise: so you must ride  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48933]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three,  Will fill the chaise: so you must ride   On horseback after me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this new system, the star players have to be star players. If they aren't, you are probably not going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33977]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this new system, the star players have to be star players. If they aren't, you are probably not going to be successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3712]]></link><description><![CDATA["You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart.Not just your bank account, but your soul."~ Anna Quindlen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newspaper takes so long to read. Plus, it has so much in it that no longer applies to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newspaper takes so long to read. Plus, it has so much in it that no longer applies to my life. So much trivia. I don't fault them for that ? all of it applies to some people's lives but not mine. I feel that I have better things to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942]]></link><description><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33534]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that you can't be too greedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that you can't be too greedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18298</guid></item></channel></rss>