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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59947]]></link><description><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same problems of an uncertain economy, uncertain earnings and the Middle East problem, which has not changed,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5226]]></link><description><![CDATA[History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27464]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hardly wear any makeup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hardly wear any makeup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the younger kids really look up to those seniors. I'll see them sometimes gather around them during practice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the younger kids really look up to those seniors. I'll see them sometimes gather around them during practice. Just the other day there were some throwers that I hadn't taught yet. They were picking things up and making corrections just from watching Donnie and Randall throw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60835]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  A Christian cannot help being free, because in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just keeping things simple. Philly's a great team, and I thought we did a good job of getting behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32044]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just keeping things simple. Philly's a great team, and I thought we did a good job of getting behind their 'D' and making things happen and coming through the neutral zone with speed. After the first period I think we were a little slow, but we got going as the game went on. We blocked shots and killed penalties, and to win games you have to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones!Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of thingsand simply "Do and Die!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow!  Hasty swallow, stay,   Point us out the way;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58438]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow!  Hasty swallow, stay,   Point us out the way;    Look back swallow, turn back swallow, stop swallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,  E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the major battle ground in the negotiations and we have won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29615]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the major battle ground in the negotiations and we have won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand,  For Riches strewed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11843]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand,  For Riches strewed herself even in her streets;   Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,    And strangers ne'er beheld but wond'red at;     Whose men and dames so jetted and adorned,      Like one another's glass to trim them by;       Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,        And not so much to feed on as delight;         All poverty was scorned, and pride so great          The name of help grew odious to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44858]]></link><description><![CDATA[By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Class is the impartial, consistent display of emotional integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Class is the impartial, consistent display of emotional integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of our fugitive dust problems arise when it gets very windy. What we have seen is when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31566]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of our fugitive dust problems arise when it gets very windy. What we have seen is when we see those dust storms, it's usually due to man-made activities, like construction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a smale maketh a grate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a smale maketh a grate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a positive cash flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a positive cash flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26883</guid></item></channel></rss>