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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for filing the intervention has been accomplished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for filing the intervention has been accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and study group -- people talking about what they know they should be doing. In a subtle way, talking about something becomes an excuse for not doing it. This new bolt-hole of the conference and study group is not confined to the local congregation. It is a painful fact of life in the central structures of the churches. We have a welter of reports, commissions, surveys, liaison bodies, and so on. They have the appearance of progressive thinking and readiness to face change, combined with the function of being delaying devices. They are the sacraments of current Christianity, and its dilemma. Outreach is a move from power structures to meekness structures, and, in spite of the fact that Christians believe that it is the meek who shall inherit the earth, they show (as in the ecumenical movement) a distinct reluctance to relinquish power-structure thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/733]]></link><description><![CDATA[By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47325]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65104]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10118]]></link><description><![CDATA[People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not whatwe say or what we do, but what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not whatwe say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actionscome from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic)rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others willsense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain thefoundation necessary for effective interdependence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. -King Richard II. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55826]]></link><description><![CDATA[And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played a lot of character parts in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played a lot of character parts in school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threatened folk live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threatened folk live long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said if you need to get your people out, you have to do it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36334]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said if you need to get your people out, you have to do it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40945]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is a victory, not a gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is a victory, not a gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hate other people without hating your self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18836]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hate other people without hating your self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65679]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55156]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess almost invariably overvalue possessions and so cease to live creatively. They stop loving God with all the heart and all the soul and all the strength and all the mind. They stop loving their neighbors, too. When you find a person of means who is not either a self-centered bore or a low person, you may know that God has worked a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always fun to go to a first-year event and see how it is and get to see a new, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always fun to go to a first-year event and see how it is and get to see a new, different golf course. [It's] another opportunity to play against the best, so it should be a good week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12406]]></link><description><![CDATA[No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of masculinity has now been commercialized. Femininity had been commercialized a while ago. But men, in general, have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of masculinity has now been commercialized. Femininity had been commercialized a while ago. But men, in general, have lost what the meaning of what being a man is all about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24003]]></link><description><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South,  And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South,  And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet   By the curves of a perfect mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56020]]></link><description><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh. And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.  By'r Lady, he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh. And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.  By'r Lady, he is a good musician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's every possibility that this is a murder we are dealing with, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's every possibility that this is a murder we are dealing with,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49414</guid></item></channel></rss>