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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay with those who make you feel good by thinking about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay with those who make you feel good by thinking about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do is herd them into voting booths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man   Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog that trots about finds a bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog that trots about finds a bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cellsthey occupied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cellsthey occupied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, my coach! Good night, ladies, good night. Sweet ladies, good night, good night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, my coach! Good night, ladies, good night. Sweet ladies, good night, good night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60928]]></link><description><![CDATA[My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could be the make-or-break of getting that job. Obviously, your appearance matters. It helps with your self-esteem. You definitely, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39713]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could be the make-or-break of getting that job. Obviously, your appearance matters. It helps with your self-esteem. You definitely, definitely want to put your best foot forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees ofgrace at any given moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees ofgrace at any given moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most recently Senator Ken Salazar has said he's going to try and see what he can do, ... I talked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most recently Senator Ken Salazar has said he's going to try and see what he can do, ... I talked with one of his staff the other day and I said that if there was any help I could give them, I'd do it in a New York second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again,  And touching all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58333]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again,  And touching all the darksome woods with light,   Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing,    Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring,     Drops down into the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1157]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19394]]></link><description><![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/78]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/78</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'm in the South. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'm in the South.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6085]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush is as interested as I am in having the greatest possible number of countries contributing valuably to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39088]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush is as interested as I am in having the greatest possible number of countries contributing valuably to the reconstruction of the area, each of us with our own responsibilities. ... I don't think that arrogance is the best companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone;  As yet the early-rising sun   Has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone;  As yet the early-rising sun   Has not attained its noone.    . . . .     We have short time to stay as you,      We have as short a spring;       As quick a growth to meet decay        As you or anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30485]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells us to do something now and we're like, 'OK, whatever, J.J.' Everybody respects him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you'vemade your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these newconcepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You andthe concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have becomethem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17328]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our differences are politics, our agreements principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our differences are politics, our agreements principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4465]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch;  Smiling I watch the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch;  Smiling I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing   It is the wind of March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum  Rara ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum  Rara juventus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long;  So instead of getting to heaven at last, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48082]]></link><description><![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long;  So instead of getting to heaven at last,   I'm going all along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but it's flowing much more smoothly from the ships to the stores than we saw in 2004,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  It is sometimes said that even if no rules were laid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  It is sometimes said that even if no rules were laid down for the conduct of its affairs, the Church, being created by Jesus to "further the work of the Kingdom of God", can be judged by the extent to which it is successful in continuing his work. This supposition rests upon a misunderstanding of what is meant by "the Kingdom of God"... The Kingdom itself is not something to be "furthered" or "built" by men's efforts. It is something which we are invited to recognize as already present, after a manner, in the life and work of Jesus. It is something to be inherited or entered into by those who believe. The task of the Church, in other words, is not to set the stage for a better world than this one but to draw the curtain from it, to reveal something that is already there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a long black coat   All button'd down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7778</guid></item></channel></rss>