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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be trusted than to be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59746]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be trusted than to be loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,   Nor looks to see the breaking day    Across the mournful marbles play!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15830]]></link><description><![CDATA[There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership does not depend on being right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership does not depend on being right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is educated insolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is educated insolence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,  And with thy bloody and invisible hand  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,  And with thy bloody and invisible hand   Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond    Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow     Makes wing to th' rooky wood.      Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,       While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is my religion - I could die for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is my religion - I could die for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19662]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6800]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, and flowers (ours by choice), Our faithful dog and cat (though it's agreed No one can own the latter), each good book (A gift, or purchased), all else we foresaw That we should cherish, and have made to look Ours by possession (nine points of the law)." With what presumption have we called them ours, And even felt unselfish when we shared them--  When, if the truth be known, they have been Yours From the beginning, Lord! You have prepared them For us to borrow, using as our own: So thank You, Father, for this generous loan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8357]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wanted to let them know he was thinking of them and their families throughout this holiday, and the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28974]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wanted to let them know he was thinking of them and their families throughout this holiday, and the American people are behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming  As not to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25135]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming  As not to know the language I have lived in.   A strnage tongue makes my cause more strnage, suspicious.    Pray speak in English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35506]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al-Ki [Indian word meaning "by and by"] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Al-Ki [Indian word meaning "by and by"]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France and England, whose very shores look pale   With envy of each other's happiness,    May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction     Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord      In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance       His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6169</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[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was on drugs and alcohol, and he threatened me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was on drugs and alcohol, and he threatened me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are able to conduct it by mail, there would be no polling locations. Running parallel elections, one in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37258]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are able to conduct it by mail, there would be no polling locations. Running parallel elections, one in the mail and one at the polls, is very expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains tomorrow, or it rains for the next week, then you're missing your entire month or quarter. It's a thin business as far as margins are concerned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Firefighters Park, there's a lake people fish at all the time, ... There's disc golf and lake fishing from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31104]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Firefighters Park, there's a lake people fish at all the time, ... There's disc golf and lake fishing from shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21392]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich that is satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2109]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich that is satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41748]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the number of people who have been put in prison just for expressing their opinion on the Internet, or for accessing certain information that the government finds threatening or embarrassing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things you would love to hear but will never hear fromtheperson you want to hear them from, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53589]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things you would love to hear but will never hear fromtheperson you want to hear them from, but don't be deaf to the personwhosays it with his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -Rachel Carson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O my prophetic soul! My uncle? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48462]]></link><description><![CDATA[O my prophetic soul! My uncle?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60565</guid></item></channel></rss>