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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.   - Sarah Williams ("Saidie"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53410]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also prepackage cheese and sausage for my homemade pizzas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also prepackage cheese and sausage for my homemade pizzas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   Most Christians would agree with C. S. Lewis when he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   Most Christians would agree with C. S. Lewis when he says [of the doctrine of the Final Judgment], "There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than this, if it lay in my power". But we cannot do so, for two reasons: first, because it enjoys the full support of Christ's own teaching; and second, because it makes a good deal of sense. If the gospel is extended to us for our acceptance, it must be possible also to reject and refuse it. The alternative would be for God to compel an affirmative response.   It would be nice to be able to say that all will be saved, but the question arises, Does everyone want to be saved? What would love for God be like if it were coerced? There is a hell because God respects our freedom and takes our decisions seriously -- more seriously, perhaps, than we would sometimes wish. God wants to see hell completely empty; but if it is not, He cannot be blamed. The door is locked only on the inside. It is not Christians but the unrepentant who "want" it [to be locked].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, we looked the more challenging side, but we made too many silly errors which gifted them soft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30672]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, we looked the more challenging side, but we made too many silly errors which gifted them soft points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50389]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16188]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44972]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this -- that we may have and change our opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30074]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66511]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will eliminate the need for the tent and free up more space in the hog and sheep barns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34128]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will eliminate the need for the tent and free up more space in the hog and sheep barns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair of all recovery spoils longevity, And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair of all recovery spoils longevity, And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All learned, and all drunk! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All learned, and all drunk!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64109]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37598]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. It's a big game, national TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51090]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59679]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11788]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46997]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14964]]></link><description><![CDATA[An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.  . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61309]]></link><description><![CDATA[How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.  . . . .   The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,    The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15429]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world willbe clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world willbe clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6447]]></link><description><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of the Christian salvation,... the Church itself will not be much enriched by an accession of panic-stricken fugitives from a Personal God. And many unhappy young people are discovering now that Church membership is not the equivalent of being reconciled to God, and a kind of Confirmation is not a substitute for Conversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29425]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end of the year, these teachers are taking the training and experience and moving on to better districts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock  The meat it feeds on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23168]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock  The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss   Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;    But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er     Who dotes, yet doubts--suspects, yet strongly loves!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire is bound to hold. But while smiling at each other, both sides will continue making preparations for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35840]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. In other words, we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35840</guid></item></channel></rss>