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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42901]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship", for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56871]]></link><description><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we drew a distinction between preaching, which the New Testament talks about as a continuing activity in society at large, and sermonising, which we have made into a special activity in the church premises... A great many people sermonising in our churches today would be better off and of greater service if they absolved themselves from the bondage and disciplines of the pulpit and came down among their congregations, teaching informally on sounder educational principles. After all, the vital matter in the ministry of the Word is not that a clergyman delivers himself of a discourse but that the people to whom he ministers end up being taught something. The tragedy is that the professional clergy have been trained to sermonise and they seem overwhelmed with fears and a sense of insecurity when they contemplate other methods. A further problem, of course, is that most of our churches contain a significant number of people who become emotionally disturbed at any departure from what they have always done in the past. To them, the sermon is part of their Christianity -- even if it bores them stiff!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49955]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The administration's agenda just doesn't resonate in Illinois. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The administration's agenda just doesn't resonate in Illinois.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50015]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth we learn; in age we understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46269]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth we learn; in age we understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be an agnostic--be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be an agnostic--be something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23936]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look not upon the wine when it is read, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look not upon the wine when it is read, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a goal of ours all season to get back to that state championship. We've all been so focused ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a goal of ours all season to get back to that state championship. We've all been so focused on that goal, and we're working as hard as we can to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42841]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Kerry's fellow crewmates -- the men I am honored to share the stage with -- are living testimony to his leadership, his courage under fire, and his willingness to risk his life for his fellow Americans. There is no greater act of patriotism than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24760]]></link><description><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature all people are alike, but by education become different ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13376]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature all people are alike, but by education become different]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56496]]></link><description><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is the first rough draft of history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is the first rough draft of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;  Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;  Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,   Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread,    Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display,     To guard their beauties from the sunny ray;      Or sweating slaves support the shady load,       When eastern monarchs show their state abroad;        Britain in winter only knows its aid,         To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14187]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside;  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside;  The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend;   This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18056]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50709]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21982]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives us some great insurance and a feeling that we can sleep at night that we have a bona fide NFL starter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but small thanks for my labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63853]]></link><description><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal brickbat, by innuendo, and by light-fingered intellectual dexterity, is a mordant reminder of the time when controversies were settled by faggot and sword. The truth is hardly less the loser because the inquisitor has altered his methods. All of us who seek to explore the wide reaches of God's revelation, and strive to bring the thinking of others under the domination of Christ, do well to seek first to bring our own rhetorical techniques under that same dominion -- under the discipline, that is, of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851</guid></item></channel></rss>