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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The indispensable 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/1217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips  If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips  If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. •Kingman Brewster, Jr.   I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. •Abraham Lincoln   Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. •Gilda Radner   Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   I met the society and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   I met the society and explained to them ... the original design of the Methodists, namely, not to be a distinct party, but to stir up all parties, ... to worship God in spirit and in truth; but the Church of England in particular, to which they belonged from the beginning. With this view I have uniformly gone on for fifty years, never varying from the doctrine of the Church at all; nor from her discipline, of choice, but of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53319]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth;  And sometimes, running o'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth;  And sometimes, running o'er the plain,   He tumbles on his nose:    But quickly jumping up again,     Like lightning on he goes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a surplus of natural gas in inventories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39173]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a surplus of natural gas in inventories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New things are fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49644]]></link><description><![CDATA[New things are fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulnesspossesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulnesspossesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us arepossessed by our possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11816]]></link><description><![CDATA[In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54582]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,    Ride out to church from Chamberry,     Dight with mantles gay,      But else it is a lonely time       Round the Church of Brou.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36570]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will see what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29226]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will see what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never repent of having eaten too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never repent of having eaten too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say good-bye er howdy-do-- What's the odds betwixt the two?  Comin'--goin'--every day--   Best friends first to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say good-bye er howdy-do-- What's the odds betwixt the two?  Comin'--goin'--every day--   Best friends first to go away--    Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold     Than their weight in solid gold,      Slips their grip while greetin' you,--       Say good-bye er howdy-do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21994]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It also puts everyone on elevated alert ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that we have emergencies we might have to deal with, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It also puts everyone on elevated alert ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that we have emergencies we might have to deal with, and the governor expects you're going to be ready to address those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven   With vain endeavour,    And memory of earth's bitter leaven     Effaced forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15715]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20228]]></link><description><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,   By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. If I don't keep changing. I'm history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I fear most is fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I fear most is fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345]]></link><description><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is you don't want to pick something too wacky, like a sector fund, or something too aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is you don't want to pick something too wacky, like a sector fund, or something too aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4583</guid></item></channel></rss>