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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9336]]></link><description><![CDATA[A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59899]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10487]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every noble work is at first impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every noble work is at first impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half of 2005 has continued into 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions never occur in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions never occur in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An educated people can be easily governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65085]]></link><description><![CDATA[An educated people can be easily governed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16540]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  The generality of nominal Christians... are almost entirely taken up with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  The generality of nominal Christians... are almost entirely taken up with the concerns of the present world. They know indeed that they are mortal, but they do not feel it. The truth rests in their understandings, and cannot gain admission into their hearts. This speculative persuasion is altogether different from that strong practical impression of the infinite importance of eternal things, which, attended with a proportionate sense of the shortness and uncertainty of all below, while it prompts to activity from a conviction that the night cometh when no man can work, produces a certain firmness of texture, which hardens us against the buffetings of fortune, and prevents our being very deeply penetrated by the cares and interests, the good or evil, of this transitory state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were his young barbarians all at play There was their Dacian mother--he, their sire,  Butcher'd to make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19571]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were his young barbarians all at play There was their Dacian mother--he, their sire,  Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65059]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would anticipate hopefully that Auburn has cleared these things up, and that when we review it in December that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would anticipate hopefully that Auburn has cleared these things up, and that when we review it in December that they will be cleared up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore turn my clouds about    And always wear them inside out     To show the lining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1470]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether the attitude is positive or negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24369]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27591]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do that for all the employees, ... In some places, the employees pay a portion of their share for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39278]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do that for all the employees, ... In some places, the employees pay a portion of their share for pensions, but here, the town pays it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kind of shooting to have the marquee lit the first week of December. They (Sherwood Co.) will replace the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kind of shooting to have the marquee lit the first week of December. They (Sherwood Co.) will replace the neon, repaint the marquee ... and we'll also have the front of the building lit up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word;  Well for those who have no fear,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word;  Well for those who have no fear,   Looking seaward well assured    That the word the vessel brings     Is the word they wish to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burgerShe was sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: I'm stopped. I'll never eat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burgerShe was sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger and she won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared to after because of all the media. Later, it's more about the ceremony itself and not the films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14914]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43970]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of creation is older than the art of killing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of creation is older than the art of killing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18167]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   Jesus invites His saints   To meet around His board; Here pardon'd rebels sit and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   Jesus invites His saints   To meet around His board; Here pardon'd rebels sit and hold   Communion with their Lord.   For food He give His flesh,   He bids us drink His blood; Amazing favor! matchless grace   Of our descending God!   This holy bread and wine   Maintains our fainting breath, By union with our living Lord   And interest in His death.   Let all our powers be join'd   His glorious name to raise; Pleasure and love fill every mind,   And every voice be praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried that double axel too cautiously. Feeling tired at the last, I thought I would fall if I jumped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried that double axel too cautiously. Feeling tired at the last, I thought I would fall if I jumped hard. In the free skate, I'll do two triple axels and perform like I did in the Grand Prix Final.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41387</guid></item></channel></rss>