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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The Handmaiden of the Sciences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Handmaiden of the Sciences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46779]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Undeclared: The Complete Series ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Undeclared: The Complete Series]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  To be right with God has often meant to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32007]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50243]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public, talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public, talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me be as a tune-swept fiddlestring   That feels the Master Melody--and snaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NeXT Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NeXT Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5520]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3217]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7527]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the far bridgemany a spent cartridgeCheney killed 81 birds that daybut in the pear treesurvived ......the partridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4354]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the far bridgemany a spent cartridgeCheney killed 81 birds that daybut in the pear treesurvived ......the partridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we have to question many of the assumptions underlying our current philosophy. Assumptions like bigger is better; you can't stop progress; no speed is too fast; globalization is good. Then we have to replace them with some different assumptions: small is beautiful; roots and traditions are worth preserving; variety is the spice of life; the only work worth doing is meaningful work; biodiversity is the necessary pre-condition for human survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's any drawback, it would be in terms of how higher prices would affect the margins in their refining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's any drawback, it would be in terms of how higher prices would affect the margins in their refining operations -- but that's not an issue now because of capacity constraints we have here in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34785]]></link><description><![CDATA[No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is weakening and we're going to see more of the effects of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is weakening and we're going to see more of the effects of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,  As fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,  As fair as ever and as fit to use;   So both the flower doth stay and honey run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53663]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53663</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/13382]]></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]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really trust a sane person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really trust a sane person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. - The Tempation to Exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35689]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no colors.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no colors.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's more than the starting eight combined. You watch him in batting practice, and you know he is a special kind of hitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11194]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's saved affords No indication of what's lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25574]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's saved affords No indication of what's lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So as you can see it has constantly evolved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40578]]></link><description><![CDATA[So as you can see it has constantly evolved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49131]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out, you impostors! Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill  Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out, you impostors! Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill  Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon agoal or goals which they really believe in, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon agoal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really committhemselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14847]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, you know, when I talked about the $87 billion, I made a mistake in how I talk about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, you know, when I talked about the $87 billion, I made a mistake in how I talk about the war. But the president made a mistake in invading Iraq. Which is worse?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23032</guid></item></channel></rss>