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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66036]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21581]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot moredon't even know there is a ladder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got the first generation of significantly educated people. There's a black middle class like never before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got the first generation of significantly educated people. There's a black middle class like never before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24358]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11034]]></link><description><![CDATA[To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,   Men would be angels, angels would be gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55362]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45156]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide;  Softly she was going up,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide;  Softly she was going up,   And a star or two beside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38400]]></link><description><![CDATA[History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you. The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I should beg every Dog in the town to bite me. Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35286]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A normal show would cost somebody to have a professional handler, about $75 a show. At Westminster, because the handlers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33825]]></link><description><![CDATA[A normal show would cost somebody to have a professional handler, about $75 a show. At Westminster, because the handlers are all champions, the fees can more than double. Probably more like $200.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised  Thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47949]]></link><description><![CDATA[O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised  Thus with the gods?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53970]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We challenged New Trier a little bit in the second game. New Trier is just a little better than us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We challenged New Trier a little bit in the second game. New Trier is just a little better than us right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44701]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10724]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of love is in the smile we put on someone else face... Asking for nothing in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of love is in the smile we put on someone else face... Asking for nothing in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17125]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in the corner that we may not be playing hockey. And that scares me more then anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain;  And then, those little anodynes   That deaden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain;  And then, those little anodynes   That deaden suffering;    And then, to go to sleep;     And then, if it should be      The will of its Inquisitor,       The liberty to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn;  They will insure her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23248]]></link><description><![CDATA[By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn;  They will insure her constancy,   True friendship and fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,  The mingled beauties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54938]]></link><description><![CDATA[So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,  The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship demands the ability to do without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship demands the ability to do without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16886</guid></item></channel></rss>