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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34910]]></link><description><![CDATA[[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine cones.] I was making little pine-cone people with razor blades, ... That's all I did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only stayed there for one year though, because I got homesick, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only stayed there for one year though, because I got homesick,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55970]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55982]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/858]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22501]]></link><description><![CDATA[When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,   His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.    Supreme he sits; before the awful frown     That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;      Not more submissive Israel heard and saw       At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. [Fr., Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom;  J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65590]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really used to be more of an offensive player, ... But people kept getting bigger, so now I'm more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39068]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really used to be more of an offensive player, ... But people kept getting bigger, so now I'm more defensive-minded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45666]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your bonny brow was brent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us   The very clouds move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51733]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   The two great features of Protestant theology are its doctrines of justification by faith and the law as the rule of life. This is a synthesis of New Testament grace and Old Testament ethics. With this synthesis, Protestants have solved the problem of finding a gracious God, but they have not solved the problem of finding gracious neighbors. They can fellowship with God because he is gracious; but they find it difficult to fellowship with one another, because they are not so gracious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65093]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trips were always a blast; he was just a funny guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trips were always a blast; he was just a funny guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never eat anything white.. white flour, white milk,white cream, eggwhites, white sugar, white potatoes etc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never eat anything white.. white flour, white milk,white cream, eggwhites, white sugar, white potatoes etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hated every minute of training, but I said, \'Don\'t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hated every minute of training, but I said, \'Don\'t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.\']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be morefun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22081]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be morefun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We use all fresh, never frozen ingredients. We use classic cooking methods and it's all in front of our customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31668]]></link><description><![CDATA[We use all fresh, never frozen ingredients. We use classic cooking methods and it's all in front of our customers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16938]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fears that any supply disruptions could disturb oil markets and such concerns are holding back both economic growth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38858]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fears that any supply disruptions could disturb oil markets and such concerns are holding back both economic growth and stock prices. In the absence of any such disruptions, we expect that crude will stay in the $50-$70 range this year and will likely always be on investors' minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde  To me by eny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18881]]></link><description><![CDATA["Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde  To me by eny other man;   If my floures ouver fade or falle,    Then doth my wyfe me wrong wyth alle     As many a woman can."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3300</guid></item></channel></rss>