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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell themBenjamin Franklin said it first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22166]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell themBenjamin Franklin said it first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65240]]></link><description><![CDATA[One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/735]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37530]]></link><description><![CDATA[D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14606]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain,   As much or more we should ourselves complain:    So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,     With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me;      But if thou live to see like right bereft,       This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--Beautiful!  I linger yet with Nature, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--Beautiful!  I linger yet with Nature, for the night   Hath been to me a more familiar face    Than that of man; and in her starry shade     Of dim and solitary loveliness      I learn'd the language of another world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Commission concludes that there is still a high level of concentration in the enterprise market in most areas of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Commission concludes that there is still a high level of concentration in the enterprise market in most areas of the country today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27613]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs   On chaliced flowers that lies;    And winking Mary-buds begin     To ope their golden eyes.      With every thing that pretty is,       My lady sweet, arise,        Arise, arise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron entered into his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron entered into his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sixty percent of the fish consumed in Iraq in 1990 was from the marshes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sixty percent of the fish consumed in Iraq in 1990 was from the marshes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58135]]></link><description><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath these green trees rising to the skies, The planter of them, Isaac Greentree, lies;  The time shall come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath these green trees rising to the skies, The planter of them, Isaac Greentree, lies;  The time shall come when these green trees shall fall,   And Isaac Greentree rise above them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--  That is light grieving!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63365]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/887]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2666]]></link><description><![CDATA[If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7279]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to HIm in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.  ... Roland Allen, Pentecost and the World  ... Also see comments on this book in Bookworms August 23, 2000 Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely.   ... Henry van Dyke August 24, 2000 Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle Beginning a short series on the Bible:  The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss till the cows come home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kiss till the cows come home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50384]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14241]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16162]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51812]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: "Never hurt anybody.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10869]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8464]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8464</guid></item></channel></rss>