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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I've never made a film using dialogue or speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39874]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[For instance, there is a direct link between infant mortality and premature birth. Clearly the more premature an infant is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38393]]></link><description><![CDATA[[For instance, there is a direct link between infant mortality and premature birth. Clearly the more premature an infant is when he is born, the greater likelihood of complications. In fact, according to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services National Center for Health Statistics, complications stemming from short gestation and low birth weight are the second leading causes of infant mortality in the United States. Ironically, the advanced medical technologies used in the United States tend to increase our infant mortality rate, not decrease it. In the United States, advanced technologies and procedures have made it more practical in recent years for medical professionals to attempt to save severely premature infants. Such attempts do not always succeed, adding to the rate of infant mortality.] Resuscitation is more likely to be attempted on extremely premature babies born in the United States than in many other countries, ... The extremely premature babies on whom resuscitation is unsuccessful are then counted as infant deaths, whereas they are counted as fetal deaths when resuscitation has not been attempted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards! Dick Maliska  Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. •Jeff Raskin   Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. •Anonymous   The Programmer's Time-Space Continuum is defined as "Programmers continuously space the time." •Leon Lanthier   Computers are useless - they only give you answers. •Pablo Picasso   "Paradosfunctionoracle" is the term used by technicians to describe the reason no one knows why your computer won't work. •J. H. Goldfuss   No machine will increase the possibilities of life. They only increase the possibilities of idleness. •John Ruskin   All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. •Anonymous  Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. •James Magary  Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. •E W Dijkstra  Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. •Popular Mechanics, 1949  Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. •Andy Rooney  Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. •Edward Shepherd Mead  A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. •John Gall   There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. •Bill Gates  If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. •Bill Gates  Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. •MG Siriam   Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. •Tom Fasulo   Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. •William Gibson   URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. •Chris Clark   My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. •Penn Jillett   We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. •Robert Wilensky   It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. •Denise Caruso   Wow! They've got the internet on computers now! •Homer Simpson  Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. •Scott Adams  I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. •Isaac Asimov   Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning. •Rich Cook   If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. •Robert Cringely   I try to get people to see what I have... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams. •Steve Jobs   The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. •Porterfield   People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago. •Anonymous  Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. •Anonymous  But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. •Bruce Leverett  Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64887]]></link><description><![CDATA[An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul it off or take a ball, nothing came easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.It is the ability to recognize ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually engaged in administering to your wants, while you do nothing but take your rest, and enjoy yourself in luxury and self-indulgence?' The Members carried out their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly. The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't play particularly well early in the game, but we were able to come back and play stronger in the third and fourth quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called out to her and said to bring Jasmine back and I would hold onto her, ... She said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called out to her and said to bring Jasmine back and I would hold onto her, ... She said her daughter had just got off the bus, she was going to go get her and come right back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would toy and woo,    He would chirp and flatter me,     He would hang the wing awhile,      Till at length he saw me smile,       Lord! how sullen he would be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You feel bad about it for a while. But the way the schedule is, you have to move on quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37350]]></link><description><![CDATA[You feel bad about it for a while. But the way the schedule is, you have to move on quickly because there is another game in two days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9562]]></link><description><![CDATA[... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4456]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When age is jocond it makes sport for death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50066]]></link><description><![CDATA[When age is jocond it makes sport for death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mobilized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mobilized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All currency is neurotic currency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All currency is neurotic currency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64152]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[then reversed and ran over her again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36654]]></link><description><![CDATA[then reversed and ran over her again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two wrongs will never make a right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two wrongs will never make a right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53696]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10252]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24021]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47122]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't give up on love, because there is always someone who loves you. Even if it's not the person you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't give up on love, because there is always someone who loves you. Even if it's not the person you were hoping for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of production output costs, Thailand is approximately 20 percent higher and the Philippines is approximately 30 percent higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42576]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of production output costs, Thailand is approximately 20 percent higher and the Philippines is approximately 30 percent higher than China.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,  And tremble in the April showers  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,  And tremble in the April showers   The tassels of the maple flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2998</guid></item></channel></rss>