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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23602]]></link><description><![CDATA[He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills,   The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else    Comes on the mind with the like shock as though     Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58756]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61991]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65584]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have learned the tricks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34607]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have learned the tricks,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, atfifteen your double, and after that, your friend or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, atfifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe depending onhis bringing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things; and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6129]]></link><description><![CDATA[In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things; and it is Christ that gives us light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been an attitudinal shift in the railways. They are trying to respond to market needs, but there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31475]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been an attitudinal shift in the railways. They are trying to respond to market needs, but there is no denying the fact that the government of India is not able to invest in infrastructure in the way that China is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53307]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo and buy a condom, it's a lot easier than going to the local shop and buying them, when everyone knows what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36185]]></link><description><![CDATA[French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great traditions, only it is full of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,  Surpassing common faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,  Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some comfort there is some value out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13011]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41233]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting from about 1870 to 1915.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave Jesus Christ in the central place in one's life. The shortest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave Jesus Christ in the central place in one's life. The shortest possible description of a Christian -- a description with which the New Testament would fully agree -- is that a Christian is a person who can say: "For me Jesus Christ is Lord." Herbert Butterfield's words about facing the future are good: "Hold to Christ, and for the rest be totally uncommitted." Any alleged conversion which does not leave one totally committed solely to Jesus Christ is incomplete and imperfect. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of the whole team's effort. With Ogre out, we had to have everybody step up. We wanted him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of the whole team's effort. With Ogre out, we had to have everybody step up. We wanted him to rest tonight. We don't know how long it will be before we have him back. We didn't want to risk making it worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of labor is to gain leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of labor is to gain leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may not like this man. You may hate his guts. But you can't convict him on the indictment the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32949]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may not like this man. You may hate his guts. But you can't convict him on the indictment the government brought to this court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66706]]></link><description><![CDATA[A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21319]]></link><description><![CDATA[HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60882]]></link><description><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fancy light from Fancy caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fancy light from Fancy caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we must see our sins in order to confess. How few of those who think that they have confessed and been pardoned have ever seen their sin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching. And until we understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching. And until we understand the Gospel, the good news about our brother-king -- until we understand Him, until we have His Spirit, promised so freely to them that ask it -- all the Epistles, the words of men who were full of Him, and wrote out of that fullness, who loved Him so utterly that by that very love they were lifted into the air of pure reason and right, and would die for Him, without two thoughts about it, in the very simplicity of no choice -- the Letters, I say, of such men are to us a sealed book. Until we love the Lord so as to do what He tells us, we have no right to an opinion about what one of those men meant; for all they wrote is about things beyond us. The simplest woman who tries not to judge her neighbor, or not to be anxious for the morrow, will better know what is best to know, than the best-read bishop without that one simple outgoing of his highest nature in the effort to do the will of Him who thus spoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47050]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child needs to be referred to the committee before anything can be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child needs to be referred to the committee before anything can be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29221]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is to use what we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44098]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is to use what we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Americans when they die go to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Americans when they die go to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45537</guid></item></channel></rss>