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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The welfare of the people is the ultimate law ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welfare of the people is the ultimate law]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11747]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686]]></link><description><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Near, so very near to God, Nearer I cannot be;  For in the person of his Son   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Near, so very near to God, Nearer I cannot be;  For in the person of his Son   I am as near as he.    So dear, so very dear to God,     More dear I cannot be;      The love wherewith he loves the Son -       Such is his love to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you read the constitution, it does not say 'after obtaining the approval' of the parliament but 'after listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36233]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you read the constitution, it does not say 'after obtaining the approval' of the parliament but 'after listening to the considerations',]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46521]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, "Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51628]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much of anything is bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much of anything is bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those running East Stirlingshire need to be up front about what their plans are for the club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those running East Stirlingshire need to be up front about what their plans are for the club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23831]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His shot is hard enough when you can see it. So when it comes across on a one-timer like that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28808]]></link><description><![CDATA[His shot is hard enough when you can see it. So when it comes across on a one-timer like that, with a screen in front, that's even tougher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me. David McArthur & Bruce McArthur -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, we looked the more challenging side, but we made too many silly errors which gifted them soft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30672]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, we looked the more challenging side, but we made too many silly errors which gifted them soft points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow--   Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56039]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48855]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45976]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conform and be dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conform and be dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -Martin Luther King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43953]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my enemies devour each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my enemies devour each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65321</guid></item></channel></rss>