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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19360]]></link><description><![CDATA[A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was disappointing. I love being a baseball player. I love the city. I loved being a Red Sox. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30703]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was disappointing. I love being a baseball player. I love the city. I loved being a Red Sox. But it's a business. They do what they do to benefit the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27870]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I criticize by creation--not by finding fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I criticize by creation--not by finding fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42538]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/545]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get overthe fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get overthe fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time tofigure out whether you like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60263]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is what closes Saturday night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is what closes Saturday night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a quick fix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a quick fix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night we heard that someone got robbed right down the street, on Spottswood right down here. That's about all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night we heard that someone got robbed right down the street, on Spottswood right down here. That's about all I've heard of, besides people walking around breaking into cars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my 26 years I haven't run into a baby who was rolled over on in bed, or who suffocated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33572]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my 26 years I haven't run into a baby who was rolled over on in bed, or who suffocated next to mom. Possibly it happens, but it happens a lot more often with moms who are bottle-feeding and have babies in cribs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63794]]></link><description><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18604]]></link><description><![CDATA[People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You forget too much That every creature, female as the male,  Stands single in responsible act and thought  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You forget too much That every creature, female as the male,  Stands single in responsible act and thought   As also in birth and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great right of an excessive wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62457]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great right of an excessive wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20837]]></link><description><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so that you might depart from the Islamic lands? But you were obstinate and were led by arrogance to more crime and your foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said these proposals deserve to be met with contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they've been hurt before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the goods the gods provide thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the goods the gods provide thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56548]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That appearance on earth as an individual is the crisis in the history both of Christ Himself and of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7717]]></link><description><![CDATA[That appearance on earth as an individual is the crisis in the history both of Christ Himself and of the humanity He saves and leads. The ministry of Jesus, therefore, culminating in His death, is essential to Paul's whole thought. If in certain aspects of his theology it is the death that bulks most largely -- because it seemed to him to be the purest and most moving expression of what the whole life meant -- he is quite aware that the ethical impulse given by the example and teaching of Jesus is of the very stuff of the Christian life. He alludes to the Gospel story but sparingly, but those who study his teaching most closely become aware that he is himself acting and speaking all through under the impulse of the life and teaching of Jesus. If he refuses to "know Christ after the flesh," it means that he will not risk a harking back to the temporary conditions of the Galilean ministry when the Spirit of Christ is clearly leading out into new fields. The issues of that ministry have been gathered up in the new experience of "Christ in me", and that experience gives a living Christ, who leads ever onward those who will adventure with Him, and not a prophet of the past, whose words might pass into a dead tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63382]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46027]]></link><description><![CDATA[You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(A lack of) patience was an issue, and it's been something we've fought all season. I hope this game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38854]]></link><description><![CDATA[(A lack of) patience was an issue, and it's been something we've fought all season. I hope this game was a wake-up call, but it's a crappy way to get it. The kids have been resilient all season. Hopefully, we'll get another shot at them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997</guid></item></channel></rss>