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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It was not the vice president's fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not the vice president's fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to help people optimize their ability to reduce body fat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to help people optimize their ability to reduce body fat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest amusements are the most pointless ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [Fr., Dans l'adversite de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/693]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [Fr., Dans l'adversite de nos meilleurs amis nous trouvons toujours quelque chose ne nous deplaist pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,   As if the very Day paused and grew Eve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before  I turn away--it is the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,   And they who follow me reach every state    Mortals desire, and conquer every foe     Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,      Condemned to failure, penury and woe,       Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,        I answer not, and I return no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By and large what we see is that hospitals need good, flexible space that can accommodate any number of services. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34187]]></link><description><![CDATA[By and large what we see is that hospitals need good, flexible space that can accommodate any number of services.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe we will be in the black, ... What I'm trying to do is a balancing act. The more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe we will be in the black, ... What I'm trying to do is a balancing act. The more money we make, the more we put in the field. That's the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10206]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58697]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good tax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55793]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4481]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32790]]></link><description><![CDATA[These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that matters. It's something they'll remember and take with them the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11803]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Within the life of the church, the paths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Within the life of the church, the paths of the single and the married should not be allowed to diverge. The shared life of the Christian community must become a context in which the differing gifts can be used for each other. There is much still to be learned about this. Are the homes of married Christians an added support for the single? Is the availability of the single Christian put at the disposal of his married friends, for "babysitting" duties and the like. And what is true of the mutual support of married and single needs to be true in a wider way of the care exercised by the married and the single for each other, so that nobody's home life becomes completely cut off from support and help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a question of how you divide the forage pie. It always has been and always will be. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34965]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a question of how you divide the forage pie. It always has been and always will be. There are some who want wild horses to get more and some who don't want them to get any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47190]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights mean self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg when it is his goose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25976]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fool can be silent at a feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25541]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fool can be silent at a feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62938]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ethics except the stern and strict rule that is laid down here [Rev. 2:15, 16] by St. John. An easy-going Christianity could never have survived; only the most convinced, resolute, almost bigoted adherence to the most uncompromising interepretation of its own principles could have given the Christians the courage and self-reliance that were needed. For them to hesitate or to doubt was to be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a young club, but we've only got a couple seniors. We're really kind of a junior-dominated club right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a young club, but we've only got a couple seniors. We're really kind of a junior-dominated club right now, so we've got a chance to be pretty good this year, but I think next year might really be our year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices continue to go up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14774]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've gotten to know them on a personal level, and I don't have to teach as much. They know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've gotten to know them on a personal level, and I don't have to teach as much. They know what to expect from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40238</guid></item></channel></rss>