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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  First in a series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  First in a series on God and the human condition:  Suffering is sometimes a mystery. We must affirm both the mystery and God. The paradox remained, but now, at least, Job knew that it belonged there -- that it is built into the moral and physical orders, and into the very nature of God as He has permitted us humans to perceive Him. In a world where the universal principle is cause/effect, the book of Job reminds us that the principle is a reflection of the mysterious, self-revealing God. It is subsumed under Him, however, and He cannot be subsumed under it. The God-speeches remind us that a Person, not a principle, is Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35930]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately free, or somehow restricted? It's my opinion it's too restricted nowadays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investment judgments over time have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investment judgments over time have come when people recognized that models derived in other periods were broken or not directly relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20131]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do it, dump it, or change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do it, dump it, or change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurts a lot. As much as it's a tradition for football, we try to take it along with us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42140]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurts a lot. As much as it's a tradition for football, we try to take it along with us. We don't want to get beat by Michigan any time. To go up there and play like that just hurts a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66714]]></link><description><![CDATA[While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60241]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,   And it soft as silk remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handsome is that handsome does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handsome is that handsome does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satellite-delivered HDTV is driving the business for many of our customers, ... We are delighted to again help DIRECTV connect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satellite-delivered HDTV is driving the business for many of our customers, ... We are delighted to again help DIRECTV connect with its customers and expand its services in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48736]]></link><description><![CDATA[For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36701]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62047]]></link><description><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who contributes to the defense fundof pornographers is a mental moonbeam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who contributes to the defense fundof pornographers is a mental moonbeam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speculation about an end to interest rate rises is strengthening more than ever. The central bank's minutes prompted buying of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speculation about an end to interest rate rises is strengthening more than ever. The central bank's minutes prompted buying of electronics makers today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong;  No longer wilt thou love me,--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong;  No longer wilt thou love me,--   Thy letter, though is long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57938]]></link><description><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice is wait for the [industry] reports and strike up a dialogue with your utility at the local level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38969]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice is wait for the [industry] reports and strike up a dialogue with your utility at the local level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, space the beechen tree! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, space the beechen tree!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very excited to have another chance to race. I love the Little 500. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very excited to have another chance to race. I love the Little 500.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15155]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60732]]></link><description><![CDATA[So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45867]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30190]]></link><description><![CDATA[My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a rusty from natives. Several states have gone as far as to make it illegal to use any crayfish as fishing bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence awakens confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence awakens confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49399]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aaron isn't afraid of confrontations. He has come so far in the last couple years. Before, he seemed to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aaron isn't afraid of confrontations. He has come so far in the last couple years. Before, he seemed to be pitching away from contact, trying to miss bats. That guy has vanished. Now, he pitches with the confidence that the batter can't get to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57107</guid></item></channel></rss>