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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Small things become the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small things become the small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye and Religion can beare no jesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  These things I did not see by the help of man, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  These things I did not see by the help of man, nor by the letter, though they are written in the letter; but I saw them in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by his immediate Spirit and power, as did the Holy men of God, by whom the Holy Scriptures were written. Yet I had no slight esteem of the Holy Scriptures; they were very precious to me, for I was in that spirit by which they were given forth; and what the Lord opened in me, I afterwards found was agreeable to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 million people marched against the war on 5 continentsin the most united opposition to war ever seen in history.Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45971]]></link><description><![CDATA[10 million people marched against the war on 5 continentsin the most united opposition to war ever seen in history.Not in a single European country was opposition to the war less than 89%.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2450]]></link><description><![CDATA[" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing politer than this. It's literally a camera looking at people -- a radio that sees things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing politer than this. It's literally a camera looking at people -- a radio that sees things -- but it's completely private. You see a white ghost. There is nothing that gives any indication of race or sex, so there is no racial profiling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55099]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is not human hearted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is not human hearted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time we've been in a competition where it was this close. It just makes everything count that much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And out hearts, though stout and brave,  Still, like muffled drums, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And out hearts, though stout and brave,  Still, like muffled drums, are beating   Funeral marches to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Catt sees not the mouse ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Catt sees not the mouse ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public affairs go best when the laws have much attention and the orators none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking men cannot be ruled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking men cannot be ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48248]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sneer is the weapon of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sneer is the weapon of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever excused his way to success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14467]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever excused his way to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul.  To the late revel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22927]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul.  To the late revel, and protracted feast,   Wild dreams succeeded, and disorder'd rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35520]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are blind in their own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are blind in their own cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33275]]></link><description><![CDATA[To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information on housing, registration, financial aid and other Northeastern logistics and contact details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day;  Who did once upon the cross   Suffer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day;  Who did once upon the cross   Suffer to redeem our loss.    Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind tohimself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind tohimself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is the folk music of the machine age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is the folk music of the machine age]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in metaphysical or ethical statements. It is an experience rather than a conclusion, a way of life rather than an ideology; [it is] grasped through the imagination rather than understood through the mind, belonging to the realm of spiritual rather than intellectual perception; reaching quite beyond the dimension of words and ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to the point where they may lose family control of the business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9554]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a why can endure any how ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52731]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a why can endure any how]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly it's going a lot faster than I had expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly it's going a lot faster than I had expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are deeply saddened to hear of the many victims caught in the devastating path of the hurricane. So many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deeply saddened to hear of the many victims caught in the devastating path of the hurricane. So many people have been adversely affected by this natural disaster, and our benefit poker tournament is the least we can do to help ease the pain of those who were most affected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66190</guid></item></channel></rss>