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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58610]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would be roughly equivalent to the number of doses that are used in a typical flu season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32280]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would be roughly equivalent to the number of doses that are used in a typical flu season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29111]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3001]]></link><description><![CDATA[All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go byyourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21309]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go byyourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More light! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27980]]></link><description><![CDATA[More light!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51379]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30233]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow,  The bird race quicken and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow,  The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action, as by prayer in its season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a hopeful cynic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a hopeful cynic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make a declaration every spring, Of reformation ere the year run out,  But somehow this my vestal vary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make a declaration every spring, Of reformation ere the year run out,  But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level no matter what happened at the other end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61836]]></link><description><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two for a kiss Only one for a sigh,  Twain by twain we marry   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9115]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two for a kiss Only one for a sigh,  Twain by twain we marry   One by one we die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the Governor's Mansion, they really have to put up a Jim Edgar-type candidate, a moderate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got the formula right. He's entering the market at the right time in terms of European liberalization and during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31736]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got the formula right. He's entering the market at the right time in terms of European liberalization and during a strong economy and he's entering with the right concept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if wild skepticism runs its course. It has run its course. It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be revealed if once we see free thought begin. We have seen it end. It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself. You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves. You cannot fancy a more skeptical world than that in which men doubt whether there is a world. It might certainly have reached its bankruptcy more quickly and cleanly if it had not been feebly hampered by the application of indefensible laws of blasphemy or by the absurd pretense that modern England is Christian. But it would have reached the bankruptcy anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54899]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almes never make poore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almes never make poore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49112</guid></item></channel></rss>