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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty and grace command the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty and grace command the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they happen to notice kids being crazy ... they go to the parents and tell them about the show, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they happen to notice kids being crazy ... they go to the parents and tell them about the show, ... We've had a few families say, `Oh my God. Thank you for coming over. Yes, we need your help.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468</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[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52436]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin brings its punishment with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin brings its punishment with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can refute a sneer? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can refute a sneer?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57727]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems—even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54883]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We realize that this is a major area where we need to focus attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We realize that this is a major area where we need to focus attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;   Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,    But an eternal now shall ever last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men make more opportunities than they find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men make more opportunities than they find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with  The rose leaves strewn beneath them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3628]]></link><description><![CDATA[How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with  The rose leaves strewn beneath them.   And his lips, too,    How beautifully parted! No; you shall not     Kiss him; at least not now; he will wake soon--      His hour of midday rest is nearly over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for our acceptance today rest not upon a serious application of the methods of scientific scholarship nor upon a serious intuitive appreciation of the Gospels as a whole in their natural context, but upon a radical distaste for the supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was hard to come by. Nobody had a nickel one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was hard to come by. Nobody had a nickel one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And quick his colour went and came, As fear and rage alternate rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51079]]></link><description><![CDATA[And quick his colour went and came, As fear and rage alternate rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. Finally a neighbor said to them, If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to retain the fruits of his own sport. Abstain and enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1596</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[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17109]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But nothing has been decided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33293]]></link><description><![CDATA[But nothing has been decided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11380]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in the hand of God, Who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   I would have the whole of my experience one continued sense -- first, of my nothingness, and dependence on God; second, of my guiltiness and desert before Him; third, of my obligations to redeeming love, as utterly overwhelming me with its incomprehensible extent and grandeur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28327]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that we have already transferred the knowledge and the technology of producing rockets to the West Bank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2001</guid></item></channel></rss>