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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The price of power is responsibility for the public good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of power is responsibility for the public good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:  Some kick'd until they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:  Some kick'd until they can feel whether   A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old soldiers never die; They fade away! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old soldiers never die; They fade away!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29673]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him he had to face these things in life . . . to make a man of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity never made a good bargain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity never made a good bargain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get out of bed before noon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get out of bed before noon]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People living deeply have no fear of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46045]]></link><description><![CDATA[People living deeply have no fear of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is commands joined to threats of punishment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is commands joined to threats of punishment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40307]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. Before the match, we talked about how it was important to play each shot as if the championship depended on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. -A Midsummer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most we wish, with ease we fancy near. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61795]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the moon, to stare up.I want to be looking at them when they comePicking among the dumb minerals, the roots.I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.They will wonder if I was important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is jealous is not in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is jealous is not in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56793]]></link><description><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9790]]></link><description><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,   And find a deuced balance with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9475]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2689]]></link><description><![CDATA[My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39739]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real value of contracts. I've done the math in my head 100 times and I don't know how they computed this cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45716]]></link><description><![CDATA[His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about patterns of behavior. What is striking about this is that it suggests that the rate (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28462]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about patterns of behavior. What is striking about this is that it suggests that the rate (of disorders) in these much younger children, aged 2-5, are not very different from what they will be in children of 9 or 14.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17067]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly;   Then rose again and bowed her to the people;    When by the Archbishop of Canterbury     She had all the royal makings of a queen,      As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,       The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems        Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir         With all the choicest music of the kingdom          Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted           And with the same full state packed back again            To York Place, where the feast is held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merchant has no country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merchant has no country]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15541</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[Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense and beauty have close connections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense and beauty have close connections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue love to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do understand the importance of our service to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36778]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do understand the importance of our service to the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality of our communities reflects that in the loss of population, the loss of jobs. They [legislators] don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality of our communities reflects that in the loss of population, the loss of jobs. They [legislators] don't know what's happening in Buffalo or Rochester or Binghamton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7894]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. And, as the enjoying of God is the enjoying of all, so the loss of God is the loss of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had just no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had just no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie's a good guy. He's a tough competitor on the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie's a good guy. He's a tough competitor on the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not just about the film industry: whether you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, the information technology industry or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32680]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not just about the film industry: whether you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, the information technology industry or filmed entertainment, the protection of intellectual property is crucial. If we can't build businesses around ideas, and feel comfortable that we have the right to those ideas, then our entire business is threatened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32680</guid></item></channel></rss>