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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[God is clever, but not dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17730]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is clever, but not dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1173]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been great to have an all-American sweep, ... but I think that this shows how strong the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been great to have an all-American sweep, ... but I think that this shows how strong the Americans are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14279]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joke's a very serious thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23225]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joke's a very serious thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42677]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is Microsoft buying Apple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your views on the world and your intellect are being challengedand you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22397]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your views on the world and your intellect are being challengedand you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you'vedetected that is threatening your current model of the world or someaspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. Thisdiscomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er.  'Tis Berenice blest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er.  'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she   Away the Graces would no Graces be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries around inhis pocket. The more he has, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries around inhis pocket. The more he has, the more they weigh him down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In places like Ford County, Piatt, Douglas and DeWitt counties, (agriculture) is a large economic driver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38098]]></link><description><![CDATA[In places like Ford County, Piatt, Douglas and DeWitt counties, (agriculture) is a large economic driver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime of golf. That's the highest praise I can give anyone, to compare him to Jack Nicklaus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're half fish, half flesh. A plague on them! They ne'er come but I look to be washed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you predict anything? I wouldn't have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I'm very pleased with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33479]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you predict anything? I wouldn't have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I'm very pleased with the manner in which everybody has responded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right out of the chute, we announced awards from returning customers and had a fantastically successful Atlas V launch with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right out of the chute, we announced awards from returning customers and had a fantastically successful Atlas V launch with NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto - and there are 11 months to go in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They felt like losing the school was losing the community really. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They felt like losing the school was losing the community really.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the artistic mind has to boost company morale and increase productivity. Most artists would just as soon quit once they become conscious of their exploitation and that is a sign of strength not weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2320]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5141]]></link><description><![CDATA[All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity is there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity is there,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36819]]></link><description><![CDATA[One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49423</guid></item></channel></rss>