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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26862]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Asia, for a long time we have been in denial about the sustainability of high oil prices. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Asia, for a long time we have been in denial about the sustainability of high oil prices. There is tremendous potential for Asia to improve efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44844]]></link><description><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, but, wow, 5,000 calories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  It was his steadfast and unalterable conviction that for a man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  It was his steadfast and unalterable conviction that for a man who has wrapped his will in God's will, put his life consciously into the stream of the divine Life, freed his soul from all personal ambitions, taken his life on trust as a divine gift -- that for such a man there is an over-ruling Providence which guards and guides him in every incident of his life, from the greatest to the least. He held that all annoyances, frustrations, disappointments, mishaps, discomforts, hardships, sorrows, pains, and even final disaster iteself, are simply God's way of teaching us lessons that we could never else learn. That circumstances do not matter, are nothing, but that the response of the spirit that meets them is everything; that there is no situation in human life, however apparently adverse, nor any human relationship, however apparently uncongenial, that cannot be made, if God be in the heart, into a thing of perfect joy; that, in order to attain this ultimate perfection, one must accept every experience and learn to love all persons... that the worth of life is is not to be measured by its results in achievement or success, but solely by the motives of the heart and the efforts of one's will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've been talking about doing that for 10 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37894]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've been talking about doing that for 10 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47976]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5832]]></link><description><![CDATA[While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity  That it went hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12076]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity  That it went hand in hand even with the vow   I made to her in marriage, and to decline    Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor     To those of mine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46795]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  Tell God all that is in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes, that He may help you conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them: show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell Him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others.  If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171]]></link><description><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little,   Tight little,    Slight little,     Light little,      Trim little, slim little craft!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a pageant, not a philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19312]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a pageant, not a philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51825]]></link><description><![CDATA[She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;   And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found;  The Redbreast loves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16410]]></link><description><![CDATA[There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found;  The Redbreast loves to build and warble there,   And little Footsteps lightly print the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52922]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46310]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one another's angels ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one another's angels]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen a boost of this magnitude. It has to be Golden Globe-oriented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen a boost of this magnitude. It has to be Golden Globe-oriented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.   - Daniel Webster, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.   - Daniel Webster,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought to be a passage from some recognized theological work set for translation into vulgar English -- just like doing Latin prose. Failure on this part should mean failure on the whole exam. It is absolutely disgraceful that we expect missionaries to the Bantus to learn Bantu, but never ask whether our missionaries to the Americans or English can speak American or English. Any fool can write learned language: the vernacular is the real test. If you can't turn your faith into it, then either you don't understand it or you don't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56443</guid></item></channel></rss>