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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something for everybody at Picnic Day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something for everybody at Picnic Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's anything serious that will keep him out for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very exciting time to join United. The company is in a significantly better position to compete in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37192]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very exciting time to join United. The company is in a significantly better position to compete in the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving McCarthy was a disciplinary measure. Whoever does not obey leaves. Be it the best player or the best paid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaving McCarthy was a disciplinary measure. Whoever does not obey leaves. Be it the best player or the best paid player. The team has to be more important than any player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy, it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38812]]></link><description><![CDATA[[That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy, it was a primary evacuation point for residents from the more southerly parishes -- counties -- of Louisiana.] So there were more people, ... and so there was more crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57006]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The speed on the water feels like 200 miles per hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The speed on the water feels like 200 miles per hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One takes a risk when one invites the Lord Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon Away, for always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6475]]></link><description><![CDATA[One takes a risk when one invites the Lord Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon Away, for always the unexpected soon Turns up: a woman breaks her precious nard, A sinner does the task you should assume, A leper who is cleansed must show his proof: Suddenly you see your very roof remove And a cripple clutters up your living-room. There's no telling what to expect when Christ Walks in the door. The table set for four Must often be enlarged, and decorum Thrown to the winds. It's His voice that calls them, And it's no use to bolt and bar the door: His kingdom knows no bounds of roof, of wall or floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,—which is an excellent thing. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Buck Stops Here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Buck Stops Here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52796]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62356]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â films, books, pieces of music, architecture ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that deserve the name 'icon' and have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40285]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â films, books, pieces of music, architecture ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a lovely tree She grew to womanhood, and between whiles  Rejected several suitors, just to learn   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a lovely tree She grew to womanhood, and between whiles  Rejected several suitors, just to learn   How to accept a better in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn March 16, 2000 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2653]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are busy looking at your next step,how can you see where you are going? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34402]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are busy looking at your next step,how can you see where you are going?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50080]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63919]]></link><description><![CDATA[A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than their years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48666</guid></item></channel></rss>