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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning is the most important part of the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning is the most important part of the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor is to be feared more than the disease ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor is to be feared more than the disease]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools grow without watering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools grow without watering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2143]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have the bats to let it rip. We have to have situational hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have the bats to let it rip. We have to have situational hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14601]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vain JackdawJupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vain JackdawJupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of his body, hoping thereby to make himself the most beautiful of all. When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his many feathered finery. But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is often found near the nettle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is often found near the nettle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was regularly used as a propaganda medium... is full of the characteristic motifs of Advent and Epiphany, celebrating the blessings which the manifestation of each successive divine emperor was to bring to a waiting world. Among the adulatory formulas with which the emperor was acclaimed, Prof. Ethelbert Stauffer mentions, as going back to the first century, "Hail, Victory, Lord of the earth, Invincible, Power, Glory, Honour, Peace, Security, Holy, Blessed, Unequalled, Great, Thou alone worthy art, Worthy is he to inherit the Kingdom, Come, come, do not delay, Come again" (p. 155) [in Christ and the Caesars]. Indeed, one has only to read Psalm lxxii, in Latin, in the official language of the empire, to see that it is largely the same formal language which is used alike in the Forum for the advent of the emperor, and in the catacombs for the celebration of the "Epiphany of Christ" (p. 251). Who was worthy to ascend the throne of the universe and direct the course of history? Caesar, or Jesus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61026]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6438]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55402]]></link><description><![CDATA[My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty obvious to everyone there that there was a significant group that had been part of that for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty obvious to everyone there that there was a significant group that had been part of that for a long time that felt like there were still possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Defense and government networks are hardening their security, but for regular users, the best strategy against high-tech crime can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38707]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Defense and government networks are hardening their security, but for regular users, the best strategy against high-tech crime can be simple.] Our best defenses against these kind of attacks are often of a low tech variety -- that is, keep paper records of your transactions, ... Even though much of what we have exists only as a series of ones and zeroes somewhere in the information sphere, we do get paper copies and we should hang on to those. The movie 'The Net,' I think, makes a very intriguing point, about this very computer literate protagonist who has few human connections, and this is precisely the reason she's vulnerable to the kind of attack she suffers. It seems to me that if we keep that in mind we'll be well served.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to astate of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22093]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to astate of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions ofincompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability tocreate. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completiondate, then do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15266]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62291]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think gas prices have had a definite impact on people who do not have a specific destination planned in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think gas prices have had a definite impact on people who do not have a specific destination planned in advance, ... A lot of the fall foliage travelers are seniors. Because their budgets are impacted more dramatically, I don't think they'll be traveling as much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60933]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,  All the world to ashes turning.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,  All the world to ashes turning.   [Lat., Dies irae, dies illa!    Solvet saeclum in favilla,     Teste David cum Sybilla.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60022]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2504]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where passion leads or prudence points the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where passion leads or prudence points the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4684]]></link><description><![CDATA[No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51812]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. [Lat., Tolluntur in altum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15386]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. [Lat., Tolluntur in altum  Ut lapsu gaviore ruant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,  Wanting the scythe, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,  Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,   Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems    But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs,     Losing both beauty and utility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do or do not. There is no try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do or do not. There is no try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22724</guid></item></channel></rss>