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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Adams first law of survival: Get even first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adams first law of survival: Get even first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,  Occasionem de die.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,  Occasionem de die.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64859]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be the change you want to see in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be the change you want to see in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For evil news rides post, while good news baits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For evil news rides post, while good news baits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They think they're being generous, but the burden is on the author and publisher. If it was fair use, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28962]]></link><description><![CDATA[They think they're being generous, but the burden is on the author and publisher. If it was fair use, you wouldn't be offering the opt-out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you done it, it ain't bragging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4824]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you done it, it ain't bragging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schering-Plough shares are most likely to be impacted by first quarter 2006 results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Schering-Plough shares are most likely to be impacted by first quarter 2006 results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64854]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and families ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and families from filling out the form. College today, of course, is the passport to the American dream for so many students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always win who side with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22223]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always win who side with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26174]]></link><description><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28580]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27462]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on thespiritual side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on thespiritual side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39413]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8735]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66592]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, naturally, I'm Sean Michael Thomas or whatever his name is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, naturally, I'm Sean Michael Thomas or whatever his name is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48271]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is sometimes saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20713]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is sometimes saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20713</guid></item></channel></rss>