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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A man is what he thinks about all day long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is what he thinks about all day long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know everybody thinks we have a hidden agenda, but the town wants to remain neutral. This is not some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know everybody thinks we have a hidden agenda, but the town wants to remain neutral. This is not some hidden plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world. [Fr., Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du monde.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54405]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world. [Fr., Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du monde.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34642]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23561]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will temporarily depress some economic activity, in much the same way a snowstorm could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will temporarily depress some economic activity, in much the same way a snowstorm could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But an usurper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/108]]></link><description><![CDATA[From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54816]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6124]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8067]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt and continues to learn (for the Christian is always learning) from the Pattern. How did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day -- He who from the first instant of His public life, when He stepped forward as a teacher, knew how His life would end, that the next day was His crucifixion; knew this while the people exultantly hailed Him as King (ah, bitter knowledge to have at precisely that moment!); knew, when they were crying, Hosanna!, at His entry into Jerusalem, that they would cry, "Crucify Him!", and that it was to this end that He made His entry. He who bore every day the prodigious weight of this superhuman knowledge -- how did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the people's judgment always true:   The most may err as grossly as the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8968]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22728</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[Earnings are driving the testing of the top end for the S&P 500, but geopolitical issues are here to stay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnings are driving the testing of the top end for the S&P 500, but geopolitical issues are here to stay for some time. That will put downward pressure on the stock market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like to like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so that you might depart from the Islamic lands? But you were obstinate and were led by arrogance to more crime and your foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said these proposals deserve to be met with contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be.  The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be.  The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep;   And Shakespeare weeps with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,   Star-eyed intelligence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the hours you put in, but what youput into the hours thatcount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the hours you put in, but what youput into the hours thatcount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64519]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17758]]></link><description><![CDATA[More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8656]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last game, and this, we've been eaten up by penalties. Don't blame the boys. It's basically coaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last game, and this, we've been eaten up by penalties. Don't blame the boys. It's basically coaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand,  Enwheel thee round! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand,  Enwheel thee round!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a strange disguise: Now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a strange disguise: Now, fever ridden, on a bed He lies; Homeless He wanders now beneath the stars; Now counts the number of His prison bars; Now bends beside us, crowned with hoary hairs. No need have we to climb the heavenly stairs And press our kisses on His feet and hands; In every man that suffers, He, the Man of Sorrows, stands.  ... Anonymous    March 5, 1998  When we have, through Christ, obtained mercy for our persons, we need not fear but that we shall have suitable and seasonable help for our duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us it's about family. It affects my family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us it's about family. It affects my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to forget someone from the past when that person has been the one you ever wanted in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63232]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to forget someone from the past when that person has been the one you ever wanted in your future...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved their fellowmen more than they lover their own lives and fortunes. God forbid that we would have to use the blood of America to freshen the color of the flag. But if it should ever be necessary, that flag will be colored once more, and in being colored will be glorified and purified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13022]]></link><description><![CDATA[See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn 'em. 'cause you know the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years.... rrrrrrrrreal f**kin high on drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14936]]></link><description><![CDATA[War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is my only means of relaxation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is my only means of relaxation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails,  Like kittens playing with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61820]]></link><description><![CDATA[With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails,  Like kittens playing with their tails.   [Ger., Mit wenig Witz und viel Behagen    Dreht jeder sich im engen Zirkeltanz     Wie junge Katzen mit dem Schwanz.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16960]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy. There we are required, not to cast the world from us, but to do our best for all others as well as ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694</guid></item></channel></rss>