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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[And more than echoes talk along the walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13298]]></link><description><![CDATA[And more than echoes talk along the walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good temper is an estate for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good temper is an estate for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and they are ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and they are ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer:   Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Christopher Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question... I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we end one of the most challenging years for the in-store rental industry, we are focused more than ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38631]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we end one of the most challenging years for the in-store rental industry, we are focused more than ever on the overall profitability of our business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18470]]></link><description><![CDATA[These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hat is in the ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62633]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hat is in the ring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We decided two years ago, given the burgeoning and growing demand for U.S. corporate bonds, to tap into that and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36613]]></link><description><![CDATA[We decided two years ago, given the burgeoning and growing demand for U.S. corporate bonds, to tap into that and diversify our funding base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the day, do the day's work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58306]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the day, do the day's work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28954]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock market will never depend on it, but I hope the report will annually at least focus attention on the status and condition of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer in the power of negative advertising. And they've been in the enviable position of doing nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer in the power of negative advertising. And they've been in the enviable position of doing nothing but negative advertising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders, ... A global network of public policy schools offers the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders, ... A global network of public policy schools offers the best opportunity for the academic community to work collectively on multiple intertwined challenges -- from sustainable development to trade to terrorism to public health crises to the protection of human rights worldwide -- and to prepare some of the world's most able graduate students to assume global leadership roles in the coming decades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are right at a major turning point in fashion, ... definitely something to watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36159]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are right at a major turning point in fashion, ... definitely something to watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For their analogy to work, Jim would be defending Best Buy, not suing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41815]]></link><description><![CDATA[For their analogy to work, Jim would be defending Best Buy, not suing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's our heart and soul. The kids look to her for floor leadership. Even for a young player, she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28599]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's our heart and soul. The kids look to her for floor leadership. Even for a young player, she has put this team on her back and hit big shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can be seen through your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can be seen through your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41868]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want this guy to go walking. We really want justice to take place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want this guy to go walking. We really want justice to take place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daniel (Zamora) is just now rounding into form, but he adds a lot to what we do offensively. He goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daniel (Zamora) is just now rounding into form, but he adds a lot to what we do offensively. He goes to the basket strong and gives us some toughness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44183]]></link><description><![CDATA[In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29878]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All teams are going to try and prove they can beat the No. 1 team. They are going to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36543]]></link><description><![CDATA[All teams are going to try and prove they can beat the No. 1 team. They are going to come at us as hard as they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not whatwe say or what we do, but what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not whatwe say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actionscome from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic)rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others willsense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain thefoundation necessary for effective interdependence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22815</guid></item></channel></rss>