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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago ain't no sissy town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago ain't no sissy town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a catastrophic failure, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a catastrophic failure,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1328]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has no borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has no borders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52785]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1491]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â± it was sheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38774]]></link><description><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â± it was sheer carelessness and incompetence on the part of the city. Unfortunately, these things are becoming more common since amalgamation. The problem is it's all controlled from a central location and they (city staff) don't the areas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just a senior and a leader doing what he is supposed to do. The last couple of games he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38715]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just a senior and a leader doing what he is supposed to do. The last couple of games he's really stepped up and has been filling in nicely for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours,  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours,  The latest of whose train goes softly out   In the red west.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played good enough to win. I liked how we responded. We just have to do a better job in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38023]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played good enough to win. I liked how we responded. We just have to do a better job in each phase of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26006]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16858]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.   - George Bancroft,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made a lot less mistakes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made a lot less mistakes,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60311]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40663]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12831]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55815]]></link><description><![CDATA[This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,— This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20138]]></link><description><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your face is always on display.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stability has been a concern here, but there is nothing to indicate any instability -- certainly there has been political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stability has been a concern here, but there is nothing to indicate any instability -- certainly there has been political chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10890]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64424]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10196]]></link><description><![CDATA[So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are to be taken in very small doses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are to be taken in very small doses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41965</guid></item></channel></rss>