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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake's articulated spine. Such elective elements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake's articulated spine. Such elective elements Educate the eye and lip With one's refreshing innocence, The other's claim to scholarship. The serpent's knowledge of the world Learn, and the dove's more naïve charm; Whether your ringlets should be curled, And why he likes his claret warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2159]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63149]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon sustained a low-grade groin injury. He'll have a diagnostic scan to find out the extent of his injury. Simon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simon sustained a low-grade groin injury. He'll have a diagnostic scan to find out the extent of his injury. Simon will undergo treatment and we'll review his situation ahead of Sunday's game in Sydney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2712]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an old drab coat   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18328]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do take responsibility for my actions and offer my most sincere apologies, especially to Wendy's in San Jose and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do take responsibility for my actions and offer my most sincere apologies, especially to Wendy's in San Jose and its employees. I'm truly sorry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers nearly three to one,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commission has decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commission has decided that only 163 of them should be followed up on. It really does mean there is a huge graft problem in North Sumatra.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our follies that we are one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worlds best progrss springs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worlds best progrss springs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one can say 'It lightens.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known the Spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, so people don't get caught. The institutions that have taken decisions that might put them into harm's way are probably fewer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good to play another team we haven't seen yet. Lawrence has a lot of talent. To be No. 1, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good to play another team we haven't seen yet. Lawrence has a lot of talent. To be No. 1, you have to beat the best teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to get the attention of the audience in the opposite way it's done in Hollywood today, which is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to get the attention of the audience in the opposite way it's done in Hollywood today, which is to bombard the audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28041]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the quarterback -- you are going to get hit. Everyone on our offensive line played well, but obviously we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the quarterback -- you are going to get hit. Everyone on our offensive line played well, but obviously we did miss O'Callaghan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing about the weekend was how we played in our defense zone. Our coverage was great. That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing about the weekend was how we played in our defense zone. Our coverage was great. That was the thing I was most worried about go in, and we tightened it up tremendously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66092]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three times we played Christopher Newport, we got any shot we wanted. The other two times we didn't shoot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37919]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three times we played Christopher Newport, we got any shot we wanted. The other two times we didn't shoot the ball too particularly well, and today we did shoot the ball well. We've got some guys who can shoot it, and we are going to let them shoot it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28731]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is love and light and vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is love and light and vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits  For breath to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits  For breath to reinspire him from the gates   That open still toward sunrise on the vault    High-domed of morning.   - Algernon Charles Swinburne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justification is withdrawn from works, not that no good works may be done, or that what is done may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justification is withdrawn from works, not that no good works may be done, or that what is done may be denied to be good, but that we may not rely upon them, glory in them, or ascribe salvation to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence - that common cure of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence - that common cure of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58068</guid></item></channel></rss>