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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I was waiting for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was waiting for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50531]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're noteven in the right jungle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're noteven in the right jungle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3983]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in 2006,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick enough, if good enough. [Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick enough, if good enough. [Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only want people around me who can do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only want people around me who can do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65848]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football program. They taught me it takes not only hard work in recruiting, but building mental toughness. Football is mental as well as physical. It starts with each person believing they can get the job done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57337]]></link><description><![CDATA[O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47495]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason can in general do more than blind force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason can in general do more than blind force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in this case, Jesus is undoubtedly an historical person. If he is not an historical person, the only alternative is that there is no such thing as history at all -- it is delirium, nothing else; and a rational being would be better employed in the collection of snuff-boxes. And if history is impossible, so is all other knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:  But while one little nap he snatched, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:  But while one little nap he snatched,   It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5354]]></link><description><![CDATA[O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy merchants in the local markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of the competitors is stronger than him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28531]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of the competitors is stronger than him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply the thing I am shall make me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply the thing I am shall make me live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54287]]></link><description><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor be dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great way to meet new friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great way to meet new friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise in heart are called discerning,    and pleasant words promote instruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise in heart are called discerning,    and pleasant words promote instruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062</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[We love to do this sort of thing. It gives us an opportunity to train in a more realistic environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32755]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love to do this sort of thing. It gives us an opportunity to train in a more realistic environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cause a day keeps reality away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cause a day keeps reality away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirsin your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirsin your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness thatdrapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightfulconditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true tothem, your world will at last be built.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22746</guid></item></channel></rss>