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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17543]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such and so various are the tastes of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such and so various are the tastes of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor   E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.    To hover as the thunder's neighbor,     The very firmament explore.      To be a voice as from above       Like yonder stars so bright and clear,        That praise their Maker as they move,         And usher in the circling year.          Tun'd be its metal mouth alone           To things eternal and sublime.            And as the swift wing'd hours speed on             May it record the flight of time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,   And only vocal with the Maker's praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  It is generally true that all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace be with you. [Vulgate Lat., Pax vobiscum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace be with you. [Vulgate Lat., Pax vobiscum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19890]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to become young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to become young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56736]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end.  I was angry with my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end.  I was angry with my foe;   I told it not, my wrath did grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody oranything outside ourselves will affect us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody oranything outside ourselves will affect us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26955]]></link><description><![CDATA[A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8714]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's never really even been off the farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30744]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's never really even been off the farm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of war and peace,--   Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!    Eternal summer gilds them yet,     But all, except their sun, is set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't understand the goal of the campaign, ... It is directed at men, to capture the attention of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36591]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't understand the goal of the campaign, ... It is directed at men, to capture the attention of the macho Mexican man who uses the turtle eggs for sexual ends. The campaign tries to be sexy precisely to capture their attention. We are in a country where there are boring government campaigns every day that no one watches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more -- love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,    Has dutifully trod     Until now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]   - credited to Sophie Arnould,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discontented man finds no easy chair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discontented man finds no easy chair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which Gad gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity and leave them with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7349</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[Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19074]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20673]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60988]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We realize that this is a major area where we need to focus attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We realize that this is a major area where we need to focus attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It showed that we can win different kinds of ways. I think that was something we were lacking at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It showed that we can win different kinds of ways. I think that was something we were lacking at the end of last season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29287]]></link><description><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government is good government. The public understands that openness - to the greatest degree possible - will produce government that is more efficient, more honest and more responsive to the citizens it serves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, you have no other proof but your word. So I hope they are going to believe her, as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, you have no other proof but your word. So I hope they are going to believe her, as they believed me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34934</guid></item></channel></rss>