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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Without realizing what was happening, most of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12735]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15342]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22265]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was kind of not publicized very well. Otherwise we may have reacted sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was kind of not publicized very well. Otherwise we may have reacted sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, to number not his years but his days. [And so, those] that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow  Is felt the first, the only sense   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow  Is felt the first, the only sense   Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15308]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to see a very large growth in our ground business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38471]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to see a very large growth in our ground business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? ... The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? ... The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you haven't got a singing face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56466]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you haven't got a singing face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to abstain from writing satire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to abstain from writing satire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say,  I never never use a big, big, D. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say,  I never never use a big, big, D.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been one of the most exciting things for us to see, in the years that we've been competing, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29986]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been one of the most exciting things for us to see, in the years that we've been competing, the level of interest growing, crowds being bigger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you knew it, people raised their hands and started arranging things. One person made a tool-sharing list and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you knew it, people raised their hands and started arranging things. One person made a tool-sharing list and another a baby-sitting list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The great danger facing all of us... is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The great danger facing all of us... is not that we shall make an absolute failure of life, nor that we shall fall into outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, nor that we shall feel [that] life has no meaning at all -- not these things. The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to tender the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God -- and be content to have it so -- that is the danger: that some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with husks and trappings of life and have really missed life itself. For life without God, to one who has known the richness and joy of life with Him, is unthinkable, impossible. That is what one prays one's friends may be spared -- satisfaction with a life that falls short of the best, that has in it no tingle or thrill that comes from a friendship with the Father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4721]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La cordiale entente qui existe entre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La cordiale entente qui existe entre le gouvernement francais et celui de la Grande-Bretagne.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's such a quantity of dogs out there. But people there aren't interested in adopting a dog off the street. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's such a quantity of dogs out there. But people there aren't interested in adopting a dog off the street. They're trying to rebuild their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681]]></link><description><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminism is the radical notion that women are people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminism is the radical notion that women are people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30696</guid></item></channel></rss>