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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36457]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48316]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a Virginian but an American. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a Virginian but an American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: "Never hurt anybody.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] writings aright, without the same Spirit by which they were written.  ... The Journal of George Fox  March 20, 1999  Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  It is no longer the fashion to suffer for the sake of God, and to bear the Cross for Him; for the diligence and real earnestness, that perchance were found in man, have been extinguished and have grown cold; and now no one is willing any longer to suffer distress for the sake of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61247]]></link><description><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. [It., Alta vendetta  D'alto silenzio e figlia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. [It., Alta vendetta  D'alto silenzio e figlia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more  impressive than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41534]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more  impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is a thing worth doing not because of the future rewards it bestows, but because of how it feeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is a thing worth doing not because of the future rewards it bestows, but because of how it feeds our bodies and minds and souls in the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47066]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36801]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,   Common to now the living, now the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this country through these very dangerous areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just want to write songs. I think if you start taking into consideration those kind of outside perspectives, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32462]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just want to write songs. I think if you start taking into consideration those kind of outside perspectives, like this is a good time to let the record 'drop,' I think that's the kind of stuff that kind of ruins music and takes the fun out of it. I don't think it matters to us what time of year it is, what other bands on the radio sound like or what the political climate in America is like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6470]]></link><description><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect us to make an announcement here and now. But believe me, we are weeks away from an announcement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect us to make an announcement here and now. But believe me, we are weeks away from an announcement, not months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23458]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12257]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain.  She let the legions thunder past,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain.  She let the legions thunder past,   And plunged in thought again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41449]]></link><description><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a step ahead of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43970]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932   Now what ought to have been the attitude of thoughtful Christians towards ecclesiastical authority, resulting from our Lord's whole attitude towards it? I think that the Catholic Church ought to have maintained and used ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authority, but that its maintenance and its use ought to have been accompanied with a continual fear. Because they had before them this fact, that however divinely authoritative, however securely resting on a basis of legitimate and genuine inspiration, yet the ecclesiastical authority of the Old Covenant, by no process of sudden revolution, but simply by a process of gradual development, was capable of becoming something so utterly alien in spirit from what it was intended to be, that when the Christ came, to prepare for whom and to welcome whom was the one reason for which it existed, it did in fact reject Him utterly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not aw'd to duty by superior sway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is love and light and vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is love and light and vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite significant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This would be a strong political message from the United States ... for what we are doing. Israel is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32599]]></link><description><![CDATA[This would be a strong political message from the United States ... for what we are doing. Israel is a cornerstone for stability in the Middle East.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59993]]></link><description><![CDATA[If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saints need sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saints need sinners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;    A few swift years, and who can show     Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27648</guid></item></channel></rss>