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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34905]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some wee short hour ayont the twal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some wee short hour ayont the twal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,  Slowly upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,  Slowly upon the amber air unrolled,   The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10316]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was formed for society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was formed for society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . .  The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . .  The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain you are recedingA distant ship, smoke on the horizon.You are only coming through in waves.Your lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15471]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain you are recedingA distant ship, smoke on the horizon.You are only coming through in waves.Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.When I was a child I had a feverMy hands felt just like two balloons.Now I've got that feeling once againI can't explain you would not understandThis is not how I am.I have become comfortably numb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without discipline, there's no life at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without discipline, there's no life at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23777]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hush! With sudden gush  As from a fountain sings in yonder bush   The Hermit Thrush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hush! With sudden gush  As from a fountain sings in yonder bush   The Hermit Thrush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills,   The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else    Comes on the mind with the like shock as though     Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8070]]></link><description><![CDATA["Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he has no "father". God is not my father in particular, or any man's father (horrible presumption and madness!); no, He is only father in the sense of father of all, and consequently only my father in so far as He is the father of all. When I hate someone or deny God is his father, it is not he who loses, but I: for then I have no father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185]]></link><description><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than the professional setting. We feel strongly that consumers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than the professional setting. We feel strongly that consumers must continue to have the choice to use these products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   It belongs to the very nature of the gospel that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6334]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   It belongs to the very nature of the gospel that the Church is built across cultural, social, and racial barriers. There are siren voices (as well as gut reactions) telling Christians that the way to success in evangelism is to follow the natural divisions, and to try to build churches along cultural, social and racial divisions. In doing so, they ignore the "success" in the New Testament in crossing these lines; more importantly, they are in fact stressing success more highly than the truth of the gospel. To buy success at the price of treating the fundamental nature of the gospel as dispensable is to follow a false gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that thinks amiss, concludes worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49404]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46891]]></link><description><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17379]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, and the plane of the solid, think there must be real things of this sort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist   Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist   Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as Christians must involve our denominations in changes even greater than those which many of us now expect. His insistence on taking seriously the gropings of all men for the truth about their lives must be allowed to remind the ecumenical movement that the word oikoumene is Greek not for "the Church" but for "the whole inhabited world". The ecumenical movement is more than Christian patriarchs kissing. Christian unity means the unity of mankind in finding and obeying God. Tillich can teach us that the Church must not shut its door to celebrate a family reunion while a single child of God remains outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42317]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16431]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a weakening trend showing up in the numbers since June. It does appear over the last few months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29642]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a weakening trend showing up in the numbers since June. It does appear over the last few months that we're hitting a soft patch of our own. I'm sure that's discouraging to those looking for a job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54394]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54394</guid></item></channel></rss>