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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33237]]></link><description><![CDATA[An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33237</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/7574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   In the way of virtue, there is no standing still; anyone who does not daily advance, loses ground. To remain at a standstill is impossible; he that gains not, loses; he that ascends not, descends. If one does not ascend the ladder, one must descend; if one does not conquer, one will be conquered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detrimentof the wellbeing of the Palestiniansspoken on the Diane Rehm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20924]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detrimentof the wellbeing of the Palestiniansspoken on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is not the root cause of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is not the root cause of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where billows never break, not tempests roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where billows never break, not tempests roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got in late this morning. That wasn't a factor. We just got out here and took things as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got in late this morning. That wasn't a factor. We just got out here and took things as they came.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15390]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say Islam is a warlike religionmust ask if Christianity has been as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say Islam is a warlike religionmust ask if Christianity has been as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you. The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I should beg every Dog in the town to bite me. Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all they have. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all they have. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13397]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not contrary to reason…. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not contrary to reason….]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis  Que les imitateurs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not consolation. It is light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not consolation. It is light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550   To be prayerless is to be without God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550   To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly--  One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep experience is never peaceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep experience is never peaceful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He warmes too neere that burnes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49418]]></link><description><![CDATA[He warmes too neere that burnes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to create a dorm room environment for the event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33228]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to create a dorm room environment for the event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31230]]></link><description><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30915]]></link><description><![CDATA[As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and encourage them to no longer suffer in silence and get help,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth  Finds the down pillow hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth  Finds the down pillow hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not born under a rhyming planet. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not born under a rhyming planet. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venezuela is privileged to be able to help the United States in this time of need, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Venezuela is privileged to be able to help the United States in this time of need,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand    I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had delusions of adequacy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11848]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had delusions of adequacy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry;  For she hes weet her petticoats   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry;  For she hes weet her petticoats   In gangin' thro' the rye,    Peer body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56756]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She did that because she thinks that's what blacks relate to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36202]]></link><description><![CDATA[She did that because she thinks that's what blacks relate to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56740]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40071</guid></item></channel></rss>