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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[An unexamined life is not worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1483]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unexamined life is not worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House prices are likely to remain relatively flat for an extended period, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36611]]></link><description><![CDATA[House prices are likely to remain relatively flat for an extended period,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available in one of the blue laser formats, then I don't see the other technologies being successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42736]]></link><description><![CDATA[And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tough luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tough luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66671</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[Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do anything different because we didn't stop what they had been doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52147]]></link><description><![CDATA[No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despatch is the soul of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despatch is the soul of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt.. that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine;  Or leave a kiss but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine;  Or leave a kiss but in the cup,   And I'll not look for wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29179]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards! Dick Maliska  Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. •Jeff Raskin   Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. •Anonymous   The Programmer's Time-Space Continuum is defined as "Programmers continuously space the time." •Leon Lanthier   Computers are useless - they only give you answers. •Pablo Picasso   "Paradosfunctionoracle" is the term used by technicians to describe the reason no one knows why your computer won't work. •J. H. Goldfuss   No machine will increase the possibilities of life. They only increase the possibilities of idleness. •John Ruskin   All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. •Anonymous  Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. •James Magary  Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. •E W Dijkstra  Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. •Popular Mechanics, 1949  Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. •Andy Rooney  Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. •Edward Shepherd Mead  A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. •John Gall   There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. •Bill Gates  If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. •Bill Gates  Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. •MG Siriam   Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. •Tom Fasulo   Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. •William Gibson   URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. •Chris Clark   My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. •Penn Jillett   We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. •Robert Wilensky   It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. •Denise Caruso   Wow! They've got the internet on computers now! •Homer Simpson  Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. •Scott Adams  I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. •Isaac Asimov   Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning. •Rich Cook   If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. •Robert Cringely   I try to get people to see what I have... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams. •Steve Jobs   The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. •Porterfield   People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago. •Anonymous  Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. •Anonymous  But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. •Bruce Leverett  Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/97]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/97</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a strange injury. When he came off in the first innings he noticed a slight swelling under his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a strange injury. When he came off in the first innings he noticed a slight swelling under his knee. There was no pain but we thought we'd have it scanned and it came back with something to do with the ligament pulling away from the hamstring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the test of the new life sermon; the girding on of armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,  Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,  Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood   With swarthy webs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,   Spake with us on earth no more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the mere existence of unusual criminals that [has] ravaged our world; for the arrangements of society (whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the mere existence of unusual criminals that [has] ravaged our world; for the arrangements of society (whether national or international) ought always to presume that some of these will be lurking somewhere. The gates have been opened to evil in part because of a terrible discrepancy between human ideals and actual possibilities -- terrible heresies concerning the nature of man and the structure of the historical universe. Christianity, even if it cannot persuade men to rise to the contemplation of the spiritual things, embodies principles which may at least have the effect of bringing the dreamers down to earth. Because it confronts the problem of human sin, it can face our difficulties and dilemmas without evasions -- without the fundamental evasiveness of those who believe that all would be well with the world if it were not for a few unspeakable criminals, always conveniently identified with the political enemy of the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion!  Thou, linnet! in thy green array, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion!  Thou, linnet! in thy green array,   Presiding spirit here to-day,    Dost lead the revels of the May;     And this is thy dominion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very clear Boston Scientific is not making this acquisition for what this company can do in 2006, 2007. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very clear Boston Scientific is not making this acquisition for what this company can do in 2006, 2007. This is a long-term strategic acquisition for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a huge match for us. Getting league wins early in the season means we're moving in the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42288]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a huge match for us. Getting league wins early in the season means we're moving in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the newspapers have their own conflict of interest because they are protected by the businessmen, businessmen that Berlusconi has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41120]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the newspapers have their own conflict of interest because they are protected by the businessmen, businessmen that Berlusconi has not been able to dominate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orange is the happiest color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orange is the happiest color.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14665]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42344]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth,  To that last nothing under earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth,  To that last nothing under earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11112</guid></item></channel></rss>