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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.  [Ger., Die Kirch' allein, meine lieben ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.  [Ger., Die Kirch' allein, meine lieben Frauen,   Kann ungerechtes Gut verdauen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly affected by the hurricane. Last year, they had 60 stores in the path of major hurricanes, and it affected earnings by about a penny. At least with respect to the hurricanes, it should be less (of an impact) than what happened last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all priced in; we hope that the trade data may take the real and the bourse higher this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35000]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all priced in; we hope that the trade data may take the real and the bourse higher this week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in crime always invites to worse deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51128]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18894]]></link><description><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master loves to be aloft   And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53176]]></link><description><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2143]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23644]]></link><description><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4282]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we just started to play hockey. It was pretty torturous for the first two periods there. We had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we just started to play hockey. It was pretty torturous for the first two periods there. We had a few brief moments in there where we did play good or looked all right, but, for the most part, we looked like a pee-wee team out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer;  Stolen looks are nice in chapels:   Stolen, stolen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer;  Stolen looks are nice in chapels:   Stolen, stolen be your apples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20284]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and Henry Miller is one of them. We are very proud of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have any interest in traditional art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have any interest in traditional art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear Thy voice  calling me to high endeavor. Give me an open mind, O God, a mind ready to receive and to welcome  such new light of knowledge as it is Thy will to reveal to me. Give me open eyes, O God, eyes quick to discover  Thine indwelling in the world which Thou hast made. Give me open hands, O God, hands ready to share with all who are in want  the blessings with which Thou hast enriched my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65270]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think halfway through the first we played a lot better. Then we took some penalties in the second and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think halfway through the first we played a lot better. Then we took some penalties in the second and you can't do that against these guys, obviously. Then in the third, I think down 4-0 going into the third it's just a matter of pride and playing hard. I think the guys responded really well but. ... too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5686]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57646</guid></item></channel></rss>