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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15981]]></link><description><![CDATA[By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous...The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get world peace through inner peace. If you've got a world of people who have inner peace, then you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63204]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get world peace through inner peace. If you've got a world of people who have inner peace, then you have a peaceful world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer such a decision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31332]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer such a decision until any potential petroleum price hikes and their likely impact on inflation becomes clearer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lose a friend is hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lose a friend is hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44127]]></link><description><![CDATA[People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards andexamine ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22741]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards andexamine ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55591]]></link><description><![CDATA[In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wow! You better keep your resume ready. Make sure it's updated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wow! You better keep your resume ready. Make sure it's updated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It basically describes a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The show takes the form of the comic strip, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36903]]></link><description><![CDATA[It basically describes a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The show takes the form of the comic strip, with its separate frames and short vignettes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little daunting, a little troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42587]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little daunting, a little troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a very quite, hard worker. Coming into this year from last year, I see 10 times the wrestler. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28354]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a very quite, hard worker. Coming into this year from last year, I see 10 times the wrestler. This year he won't be denied. He's just awesome. He is only a sophomore, too. Next year, people better watch out in that heavy weight division.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasty Wednesday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasty Wednesday]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The community really wanted to see a business in here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The community really wanted to see a business in here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing politer than this. It's literally a camera looking at people -- a radio that sees things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing politer than this. It's literally a camera looking at people -- a radio that sees things -- but it's completely private. You see a white ghost. There is nothing that gives any indication of race or sex, so there is no racial profiling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16806]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66194]]></link><description><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad let us grant him them, and now remains That we find out the cause of this effect--  Or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad let us grant him them, and now remains That we find out the cause of this effect--  Or rather say, the cause of this defect,   For this effect defective comes by cause.    Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither cast your pearls before swine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither cast your pearls before swine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life;  And he that forged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life;  And he that forged, and he that threw the dart,   Had each a brother's interest in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6924]]></link><description><![CDATA[He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the difference between owning the building and just being the contractor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the difference between owning the building and just being the contractor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goals are dreams with deadlines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goals are dreams with deadlines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33787]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be honest, we've had no complaints from people with disabilities about being unable to vote with our current voting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37256]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be honest, we've had no complaints from people with disabilities about being unable to vote with our current voting system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37256</guid></item></channel></rss>