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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The slothful is the servant of the counters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slothful is the servant of the counters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21137]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives should not remember, he that receives should neverforget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives should not remember, he that receives should neverforget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are taking some comfort in results and a feeling that the economy is getting better, but there's still some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36837]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are taking some comfort in results and a feeling that the economy is getting better, but there's still some caution. We need to see more evidence of a sustainable recovery. We need companies to start seeing profits more through top-line growth than just cost-cutting measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've reach'd the harbour, Hope and Chance adieu! You've play'd with me, now play with others too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've reach'd the harbour, Hope and Chance adieu! You've play'd with me, now play with others too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The picture of a shadow is a positive thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, he has at the level of resistance that we need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41162]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, he has at the level of resistance that we need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25580]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend. [Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum;  Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo.   Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio;    Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their true function is to help equip the laity to be the Servant People. If they turn aside to rule and to secure their own status, they have betrayed the calling of the special ministry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the state and local distribution plans that will define victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the state and local distribution plans that will define victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, said as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56378]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, said as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my inside-outside game is good. I can shoot the three, and I've got post moves that are pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my inside-outside game is good. I can shoot the three, and I've got post moves that are pretty solid. I think I can step in right away and do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble counsellors,   How modest in exception, and withal    How terrible in constant resolution,     And you shall find his vanities forespent      Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,       Covering discretion with a coat of folly;        As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots         That shall first spring and be most delicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from all contingencies and from all works, and there will come over him in this state of emptiness a peace which is very great, lovely, and agreeable, and which is in itself no sin since it is part of our human nature. But when it is taken for a veritable possessing of God, or unity with God, then it is sin, for it is in reality nothing else than a state of thorough passivity and apathy untouched by the power from on high -- a purely negative state from which (if one in arrogance calls it divine) nothing follows but blindness, failure of understanding, and a disinclination to be governed by the rules of ordinary righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks to everyone. ... Otherwise it wouldn't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55094]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate turned its back on a golden opportunity today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a good man thrive, all thrive with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49505]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know how to think need no teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know how to think need no teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon a slippery place   Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got the ball I just went hard toward the box and on this field it's easier to stay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39071]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got the ball I just went hard toward the box and on this field it's easier to stay in front so I just made sure to keep the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14622]]></link><description><![CDATA["Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I've ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It's incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed to make a couple more shots early on. A bucket here or there, who knows, it might have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed to make a couple more shots early on. A bucket here or there, who knows, it might have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good Milan. We played well after being only partially convincing in previous games. We wasted a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good Milan. We played well after being only partially convincing in previous games. We wasted a lot of chances and one has to say that Pagliuca was really good today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing only leads to more writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing only leads to more writing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53220]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the desert road,   Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being present "with" someone, it is a matter of being present " to" someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64465]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58502]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet who shall shut out Fate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet who shall shut out Fate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15373</guid></item></channel></rss>