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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19607]]></link><description><![CDATA[No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63776]]></link><description><![CDATA[How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5044]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27633]]></link><description><![CDATA[[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4095]]></link><description><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end and aim of all education is the development of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end and aim of all education is the development of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played a lot of character parts in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played a lot of character parts in school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50071]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being No. 1, we were definitely content with that. We got too lax about it. I guess we couldn't finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being No. 1, we were definitely content with that. We got too lax about it. I guess we couldn't finish today. We couldn't beat their 10-man ride. They were all over the place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor really doesn't control that. If they choose to operate under a different financial situation, that's up to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor really doesn't control that. If they choose to operate under a different financial situation, that's up to them. They know best what they need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree,  Ne'er had been read, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54094]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree,  Ne'er had been read, in story old,   Of maiden true betray'd for gold,    That loved, or was avenged, like me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2579]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20134]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I have watched my crowds dwindle. I am going nowhere, and nowhere quick, but, those of you who have children, I am sorry to tell you this, but they are not special. Wait! I know some of you are going "what, what?" Let me just clarify: I know YOU think they're special ... ha ha ha! I'm aware of that. I'm just here to tell you, that they're NOT! Ha ha ha ha! Sorry. Did you know that every time a guy comes he comes two-hundred million sperm? One out of TWO-HUNDRED MILLION – that load, we're only talking about one load – connected: gee, what are the fucking odds? Do you know what that means? I've wiped nations off've my chest with a grey gymsock. ENTIRE CIVILISATIONS HAVE FLAKED AND CRUSTED IN THE HAIR AROUND MY NAVEL! [...] I've tossed universes in my underpants while napping. Boom! A Milkyway shoots into my jockeyshorts: "Unngh ... what's for fucking breakfast?!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17224]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4449]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were a purist about language, you might think that this was a disease that people were contracting from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42401]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were a purist about language, you might think that this was a disease that people were contracting from contact with the show. If you are somebody who delights in that ephemeral novelty in language, then you realize that people are so impressed with what the show and that it's affected them so much, that at least mildly in their own language practices, they want to be a part of it, and I think that's interesting to see happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54394]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36212]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to finalise this issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be careful we don't do a lot of miles on Friday and Saturday and keep the engine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be careful we don't do a lot of miles on Friday and Saturday and keep the engine safe for the race on Sunday,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to believe that the goodness and justice of God is such as to make nothing necessary to be believed by any man which, by the help of due instruction, may not be made sufficiently plain to a common understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about the next generation of the CBC. We are a family, and the family goes from generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29622]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about the next generation of the CBC. We are a family, and the family goes from generation to generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is suffering. One side always loves more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is suffering. One side always loves more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53182]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43205]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35763</guid></item></channel></rss>