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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[can't believe it, but it's next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40293]]></link><description><![CDATA[can't believe it, but it's next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47491]]></link><description><![CDATA[War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17854]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer I know has trouble writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer I know has trouble writing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aim was always to reach a consensus to ensure a victory in the referendum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aim was always to reach a consensus to ensure a victory in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you do that? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29452]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you do that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21718]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40017]]></link><description><![CDATA[These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12603]]></link><description><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural gas prices will be bad as well, we shouldn't expect prices to go back down significantly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural gas prices will be bad as well, we shouldn't expect prices to go back down significantly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me an opportunity to play. It helped me grow as a player, every year I played there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29240]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me an opportunity to play. It helped me grow as a player, every year I played there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are blind in their own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are blind in their own cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15077]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never met a man I didn't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never met a man I didn't like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45840]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you got in a scene with Don, it was like stepping up onto a surfboard, and you just flew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33733]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you got in a scene with Don, it was like stepping up onto a surfboard, and you just flew through those waves. It was exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27275]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor consists in the power of self recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor consists in the power of self recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By so much reading. It is rather when    We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge     Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,      Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--       'Tis then we get the right good from a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, an animal that makes bargains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, an animal that makes bargains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55471]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55471</guid></item></channel></rss>