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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Strict law is often great injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strict law is often great injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This exchange has allowed all of these groups to state their position on the current crisis and their proposals to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30089]]></link><description><![CDATA[This exchange has allowed all of these groups to state their position on the current crisis and their proposals to get out of it as soon as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The further you go, the better chance there is that you're going to get your heart ripped out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further you go, the better chance there is that you're going to get your heart ripped out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do anything different because we didn't stop what they had been doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35881]]></link><description><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18411]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results witheach unit of effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32640]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Brutus sick, and is it physical To walk unbraced and suck up the humors  Of the dank morning? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is Brutus sick, and is it physical To walk unbraced and suck up the humors  Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,   And will he steal out of his wholesome bed    To dare the vile contagion of the night,     And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air,      To add unto his sickness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman was God's second mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman was God's second mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went into the game with the plan to pressure their guards as much as anyone we played all year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37574]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went into the game with the plan to pressure their guards as much as anyone we played all year. We did that, and then on offense, our size took over. We got an eight-point lead and got into our half-court stuff and ran our offense through our big guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6170]]></link><description><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57406]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11076]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to be an interesting budget year. It'll all work out ... but it may be that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29336]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to be an interesting budget year. It'll all work out ... but it may be that we just meet our needs this year and do fewer wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34308]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56043]]></link><description><![CDATA[A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've lost a lot of close games that we could have won, but they slipped away. We play the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've lost a lot of close games that we could have won, but they slipped away. We play the same way every game. But this game, we had to keep playing hard because Virginia wasn't going to go away. We knew the only way to beat Virginia was to play hard for 40 minutes and that's what we did tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65837]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She did a really good job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40327]]></link><description><![CDATA[She did a really good job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriages are made in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriages are made in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark... I would do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark... I would do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59269</guid></item></channel></rss>