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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse your ad libs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The dangers of the seas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Ronald McDonald when you smileeach of your teeth gravestones stands forbillions and billions of lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Ronald McDonald when you smileeach of your teeth gravestones stands forbillions and billions of lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also to seek from Him the very power. This happy necessity of having recourse to Him in all our wants, instead of being grievous to us, should be our greatest consolation. What a happiness is it that we are allowed to speak to Him with confidence; to open our hearts and hold familiar conversation with him, by prayer! He Himself invites us to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53881]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The both of them, they released the best of the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The both of them, they released the best of the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54583]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be smart, but never show it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be smart, but never show it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61210]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman   War is too serious a matter to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61166]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman   War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are  In a silver chain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25622]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are  In a silver chain   Of evening rain    Unravelled from the trembling main     And threading the eye of a yellow star:--      So many time do I love again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44690]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, an order, a society... but rather where it understands itself as being a part of the one, holy, catholic, Christian Church, where it shares actively and passively in the sufferings and struggles of the whole Church. Every principle of selection, every separation connected with it that is not necessitated quite objectively by common work, local conditions, or family connections is of the greatest danger to a Christian community. When the way of intellectual or spiritual selection is taken, the human element always insinuates itself and robs the fellowship of its spiritual power and its effectiveness for the Church, and drives it into sectarianism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  If indeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just can't let it get to you. You have to remain focused on what you're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33009]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just can't let it get to you. You have to remain focused on what you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coventry is a tremendous test for our squad. They have a great history in this game, a great coach in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coventry is a tremendous test for our squad. They have a great history in this game, a great coach in Mick Adams, and I look forward to hosting them in July.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47043]]></link><description><![CDATA[True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inch in missing is as bad as an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48975]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14006]]></link><description><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year the kids learn something and I learn something. I know where we need to put the focus next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year the kids learn something and I learn something. I know where we need to put the focus next year and I know the kids will work hard to get us where we want to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to put out a unified message that downtown is working. We need to move forward with a positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37768]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to put out a unified message that downtown is working. We need to move forward with a positive message.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gary Pruitt is the best young executive in the group. Right now, I have a hard time getting institutional investors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gary Pruitt is the best young executive in the group. Right now, I have a hard time getting institutional investors interested in McClatchy, frankly. But with this merger, McClatchy becomes the most interesting name in the group. It goes from an interesting little niche story to a major story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33987</guid></item></channel></rss>