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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be mean or anything, but I don't like girls, because they just want to bother you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be mean or anything, but I don't like girls, because they just want to bother you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were the fastest cars produced in 1987. Faster even than the Corvette. That's what made them famous. Everybody who's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34891]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were the fastest cars produced in 1987. Faster even than the Corvette. That's what made them famous. Everybody who's ever driven one of those cars is impressed with its speed and handling. To this day, there are all kinds of shootouts between the Grand Nationals and Mustangs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free from his natural setting in family and neighborhood, and becomes a sort of replaceable unit in the social machine, His nearest neighbors may not even know his name. He is free to move from place to place, from job to job, from acquaintance to acquaintance, and -- if he has attained a high degree of emancipation -- from wife to wife. He is in every context a more and more anonymous and replaceable part, the perfect incarnation of the rationalist conception of man. Wherever western civilization has spread in the past one hundred years, it has carried this atomizing process with it. Its characteristic product in Calcutta, Shanghai, or Johannesburg, is the modern city into which myriads of human beings, loosened from their old ties in village or tribe or caste, like grains of sand fretted by water from an ancient block of sandstone, are ceaselessly churned around in the whirlpool of the city -- anonymous, identical, replaceable units. In such a situation, it is natural that men should long for some sort of real community, for men cannot be human without it. It is especially natural that Christians should reach out after that part of Christian doctrine which speaks of the true, God-given community, the Church of Jesus Christ. We have witnessed the appalling results of trying to go back to some sort of primitive collectivity based on the total control of the individual, down to the depths of his spirit, by an all-powerful group. Yet we know that we cannot condemn this solution to the problem of man's loneliness if we have no other to offer. It is natural that men should ask with a greater eagerness than ever before, such questions as these: "Is there in truth a family of God on earth to which I can belong, a place where all men can be truly at home? If so, where is it to be found, what are its marks, and how is it related to, and dis tinguished from, the known communities of family, nation, and culture? What are its boundaries, its structure, its terms of membership? And how comes it that those who claim to be the spokesmen of that one holy fellowship are themselves at war with one another as to the fundamentals of its nature, and unable to agree to live together in unity and concord?" The breakdown of Christendom has forced such questions as these to the front. I think that there is no more urgent theological task than to try to give them plain and credible answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FranÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â§ois Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly independent nation, but not yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36926]]></link><description><![CDATA[FranÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â§ois Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly independent nation, but not yet part of a global European nation. We're in a no man's land. There is a longing for a monarch and a request for a stronger president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had come to know about their protest plan and had made arrangements in advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had come to know about their protest plan and had made arrangements in advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20481]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We found that producers who had planted Bt corn that controls European corn borer in 2003 were significantly more likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found that producers who had planted Bt corn that controls European corn borer in 2003 were significantly more likely to plant corn rootworm corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procastination is the thief of Time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procastination is the thief of Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   One of the most remarkable features of Mosaic legislation... is its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   One of the most remarkable features of Mosaic legislation... is its humanity to man. It is the most humanitarian of all known bodies of laws before recent times. The laws about slavery, which envisage the liberation of Hebrew slaves after seven years, are a good example. But there are also laws protecting the poor: interest (always high in the ancient East) was prohibited, and again there was a moratorium after a term of years... Even strangers, who normally had very little protection in antiquity, except when they were citizens of a strong neighbouring state which might step in and protect them by force of arms, are exceptionally well cared for by Mosaic law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibility of rejection was ever present. St. Paul did not establish himself in a place and go on preaching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibility of rejection was ever present. St. Paul did not establish himself in a place and go on preaching for years to men who refused to act on his teaching. When once he had brought them to a point where decision was clear, he reminded that they should make their choice. If they rejected him, he rejected them... He did not simply "go away"; he openly rejected those who showed themselves unworthy of his teaching. It was part of the Gospel that men might "judge themselves unworthy of eternal life". It is a question which needs serious consideration whether the Gospel can be truly preached if this element is left out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is a product of social excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is a product of social excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46006]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48826</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[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The purchase] is like a daydream of a used car salesman; we paid big bucks for lemons, ... We're buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39735]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The purchase] is like a daydream of a used car salesman; we paid big bucks for lemons, ... We're buying lemons for Iraqi allies who have bull's-eyes on their backs. That's crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just got hot. We were really in trouble in the second quarter. They had us on the ropes. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just got hot. We were really in trouble in the second quarter. They had us on the ropes. Our subs came in and did a good job to hold it close until halftime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41682]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[, The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59325]]></link><description><![CDATA[, The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the sense of mystery dominates; unless you feel that mystery, all becomes prosaic -- nothing about God is prosaic.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  August 26, 2000 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   Have you noticed this? Whatever need or trouble you are in, there is always something to help you in your Bible, if only you go on reading till you come to the word God specially has for you. I have noticed this often. Sometimes the special word is in the portion you would naturally read, or in the Psalm for the day, ... but you must go on till you find it, for it is always somewhere. You will know it the moment you come to it, for it will rest your heart.   ... Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways  August 27, 2000 Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.   ... Martin Luther August 28, 2000 Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee: I ugly rushed headlong upon those beautiful things thou hast made. Thou indeed wert with me; but I was not with thee: these beauties kept me far enough from thee: even those, which unless they were in thee, should not be at all.  ... St. Augustine, Confessions August 29, 2000 The Divine Perfections. How shall I praise th' eternal God,  That Infinite Unknown? Who can ascend his high abode,   Or venture near his throne? The great invisible! He dwells  Conceal'd in dazzling light: But his all-searching eye reveals  The secrets of the night. Those watchful eyes that never sleep,  Survey the world around; His wisdom is the boundless deep,  Where all our thoughts are drown'd.  He knows no shadow of a change,  Nor alters his decrees; Firm as a rock his truth remains,   To guard his promises.  Justice, upon a dreadful throne,  Maintains the rights of God; While mercy sends her pardons down,  Bought with a Saviour's blood. Now to my soul immortal King,   Speak some forgiving word; Then `twill be double joy to sing  The glories of my Lord.   ... Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II, #166  August 30, 2000  As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the conduct of American education, the regulation of marriage and divorce, on sex and drink, on how industrial disputes are settled, on how we carry on business? As a plain matter of fact, religion in this country is generally regarded as a tolerated pastime for such people as happen to like to indulge in occasional godly exercises -- as a strictly private matter in an increasingly close-knit and socially acting society -- in other words, as something that does not count. I should like to see the Church recognize that it has been pushed into the realm of the non-essentials, and to persuade it to fight like fury for the right and the duty to bring every act of America and Americans before the bar of God's judgment. [Christian leaders] are making valiant claim to such a right and duty; but the great mass of Church members are content to regard the Church as a conglomerate of private culture clubs, nice for christenings, weddings and funerals. Most Church members readily agree with the unchurched majority that it is not the proper business of the Church to criticize America or Americans.  ... Bernard Iddings Bell, God is Not Dead August 31, 2000 Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supported ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supported through not-for-profit theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66796]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lap of providence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lap of providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quiet places, reason abounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52799]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quiet places, reason abounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52799</guid></item></channel></rss>