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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/914]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20516]]></link><description><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gov. Romney's education reform plan addresses the single biggest challenge for our state's economy, which is supplying the pipeline of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gov. Romney's education reform plan addresses the single biggest challenge for our state's economy, which is supplying the pipeline of skilled workers that technology employers need for sustained future growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think these women had a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's against the law in California to secretly videotape employees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think these women had a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's against the law in California to secretly videotape employees while they're changing clothes, and there's no exception in the law for Hooters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have regard to the end. [Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have regard to the end. [Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10932]]></link><description><![CDATA[No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35352]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will be served must bee patient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49407]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will be served must bee patient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52854]]></link><description><![CDATA[An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven  Fires all the faculties with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven  Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64503]]></link><description><![CDATA[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39284]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it became a solid five-day project. I put a lot of love into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am not desperate, I am worthless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sends cold according to Cloathes. [God sends cold according to clothes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49275]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sends cold according to Cloathes. [God sends cold according to clothes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60554]]></link><description><![CDATA[His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43177]]></link><description><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his infamous delay,   Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,    In all the magnanimity of thought;     Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.      And why? because he thinks himself immortal,       All men think all men mortal but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New taxes should be a last resort, not an option ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58688]]></link><description><![CDATA[New taxes should be a last resort, not an option]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36294]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26138]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating words has never given me indigestion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating words has never given me indigestion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my goodness. They showed a lot of heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my goodness. They showed a lot of heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love light in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love light in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking up to some extent, and reduces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking up to some extent, and reduces the case for a near-term interest rate cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50158]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50158</guid></item></channel></rss>