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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[When you're getting mature the responsibility you have ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33432]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're getting mature the responsibility you have]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're assuming that these folks will be coming here and staying here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're assuming that these folks will be coming here and staying here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45702]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308</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[Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reject your reality and substitute it for my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our people, and now it is interfering with this critical question of the arms race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheep follow sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sheep follow sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more -- love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art; to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16417]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris wrapped in night! half nebulousThe moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs..A lovely frame for this wild battlescene Beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paris wrapped in night! half nebulousThe moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs..A lovely frame for this wild battlescene Beneath the vapor's floating scarves, the SeineTrembles, mysterious, like a magic mirrorCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   By constantly meditating on the goodness of God and on our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   By constantly meditating on the goodness of God and on our great deliverance from that punishment which our sins have deserved, we are brought to feel our vileness and utter unworthiness; and while we continue in this spirit of self-degradation, everything else will go on easily. We shall find ourselves advancing in our course; we shall feel the presence of God; we shall experience His love; we shall live in the enjoyment of His favour and in the hope of His glory... You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven. The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is to bow than breake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is to bow than breake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51972</guid></item></channel></rss>