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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living a fantasy. You can't give everybody the best of both worlds in a low-cost environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45282]]></link><description><![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32831]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55125]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried out by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried out by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who promises runs in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11503]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who promises runs in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter,   And that which was before come after;    But those that write in rhyme still make     The one verse for the other's sake;      For one for sense, and one for rhyme,       I think's sufficient at one time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain,  Subdues the rage of poison, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain,  Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine own deeds; but thou art not willing to receive the excuses of others. It were more just that thou shouldest accuse thyself, and excuse thy brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at Iran's decision. It remains to be seen how Iran will respond. Iran has an opportunity now to come into line with requests made by the IAEA board; we hope it would choose that constructive path.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family ticket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  But upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford to work on my calling, and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk talker also myself in the matters of religion. But now I may say I heard, but I understood not; for they were far above, out of my reach; for their talk was about a new birth -- the work of God on their hearts. And methought they spake as if Joy did make them speak; they spake with such pleasantness of scripture language and with such appearance of grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7098</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[I hope that Aberdeen Airport will do everything possible to be a good neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that Aberdeen Airport will do everything possible to be a good neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no substitute for experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14662]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no substitute for experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She sounded like somebody who would be capable of taking care of Melissa. I didn't like the idea of not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28990]]></link><description><![CDATA[She sounded like somebody who would be capable of taking care of Melissa. I didn't like the idea of not meeting her, but that's just the way it happened. ... I think of all the mistakes I made. It's too late to go back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nose, nose, holly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose?  Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nose, nose, holly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose?  Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;   And they gave me this jolly red nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66613]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's helped me a lot with my situational moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28194]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's helped me a lot with my situational moves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3169]]></link><description><![CDATA[No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded. Of course, it would've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40103]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded. Of course, it would've been more fun if we'd had a rider in the break, but I'm pretty satisfied with the fact that we had three guys in the second group with all the big favourites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46037]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13948]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37092]]></link><description><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58831]]></link><description><![CDATA[All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16984]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16984</guid></item></channel></rss>