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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beggarly people, A church and no steeple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu;  Though we sever, my fond heart  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45562]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu;  Though we sever, my fond heart   Till we meet shall pant for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,  Which, as they kiss, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11844]]></link><description><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,  Which, as they kiss, consume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet is what home would be without children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet is what home would be without children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12223]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   If afore us were laid together all the pains in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   If afore us were laid together all the pains in Hell... and in Earth -- death and the rest -- and by itself, sin, we would rather choose all that pain than sin. For sin is so vile and so greatly to be hated that it may be likened to no pain that is not sin. To me was shown no harder hell than sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is the science of being totally prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is the science of being totally prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, is not an attractive option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it is a curse because I don't get the opportunities that I normally would get. But if I am in a situation that is out of my control, everyone is still going to hold me responsible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45372]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name?  When cowards mock the patriot's fate,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name?  When cowards mock the patriot's fate,   Who hangs his head for shame?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59969]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that this new document is balanced in character, and it includes North Korea's right to peaceful atomic energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that this new document is balanced in character, and it includes North Korea's right to peaceful atomic energy and the possibility in the long term of building a light-water nuclear reactor,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers on the southwest border are much higher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers on the southwest border are much higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32298]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really good. I was really proud of her. She's been hitting the ball very well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29935]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really good. I was really proud of her. She's been hitting the ball very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and by the reconstruction of (typhoon affected) areas in the US.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59278]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20996]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   When we inculcate that faith ought to be certain and secure, we conceive not of a certainty attended with no doubt, or of a security interrupted by no anxiety; but we rather affirm, that believers have a perpetual conflict with their own diffidence, and are far from placing their consciences in a placid calm never disturbed by any storms. Yet, on the other hand, we deny, however they may be afflicted, that they ever fall and depart from that certain confidence which they have conceived in the divine mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict cannot survive without your participation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict cannot survive without your participation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,   The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes    In wild despair; while yet another stroke     With strong convulsion rends the solid oak:      Ah Heaven!--behold her crashing ribs divide!       She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, in California I think you'll remember two years ago we had the siege, that happened in October in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, in California I think you'll remember two years ago we had the siege, that happened in October in the `90's, it always happens around the October, November months near the end of September, ... To not have a false sense of security because just because we've been slow, doesn't mean we're out of the woods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from her reception to go to her father's deathbed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033</guid></item></channel></rss>