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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the way of crop losses, theres some localized areas that had losses, but on a widespread basis, we missed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35311]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the way of crop losses, theres some localized areas that had losses, but on a widespread basis, we missed the most significant damage,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57879]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52300]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- then we can all die laughing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate him to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate him to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam was a development project. He had never raced before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam was a development project. He had never raced before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470]]></link><description><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they are doing is priceless, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39706]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they are doing is priceless,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbour is ideologically opposed to tax increases, and he apparently wants to finish his term saying he avoided one, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barbour is ideologically opposed to tax increases, and he apparently wants to finish his term saying he avoided one, even in the face of this tremendous disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/75]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/75</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36272]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hate other people without hating your self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18836]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hate other people without hating your self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21399]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality oflife that's far below what you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25345]]></link><description><![CDATA[University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brandon really pitched well all game. That first inning his defensive just didn't help him out. That was kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brandon really pitched well all game. That first inning his defensive just didn't help him out. That was kind of a wake up call for us. He threw strikes and kept us in the ball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11470]]></link><description><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He came here and he emerged and I didn't and that's all I heard, Fred this and Fred that, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35666]]></link><description><![CDATA[He came here and he emerged and I didn't and that's all I heard, Fred this and Fred that, ... I was proud of him. He was doing a great job and I wasn't. I got tired of hearing it, but I was proud of him at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized crime in this region,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love the giver more than the gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love the giver more than the gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to eternal life, is you have to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46226]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really good news. I compliment our staff, the leadership teams in the schools, the students and parents ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34175]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really good news. I compliment our staff, the leadership teams in the schools, the students and parents ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ everyone who had a part in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34175</guid></item></channel></rss>