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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Modi) says that his television stations would be in profit after the first year of a four year deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42555]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Modi) says that his television stations would be in profit after the first year of a four year deal and that 'side-deals', as he puts it, were an integral part of the negotiating process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been encouraged by the results of a couple successful campaigns that we've featured to help promote them, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been encouraged by the results of a couple successful campaigns that we've featured to help promote them, but the overall impact of the format has still been nominal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/413]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said 'Can I borrow $200?' and she said 'Why don't you act like you've got $200.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34398]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no delight in owning anything unshared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24580]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. [Lat., Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas.  Et melius nulla quaeritur arte favor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, theperfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, theperfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it toyou. You don't create a Master Teacher-that's already been done. Youdiscover your Master Teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It helps to have someone in the same boat as you, ... There's a lot of pressure, so it helps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It helps to have someone in the same boat as you, ... There's a lot of pressure, so it helps to have someone who's also young and famous and has a lot of pressure to succeed. Plus it's easier because I don't have to worry about her motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope people will walk away with the idea that this was a very frequent act of violence, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37024]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope people will walk away with the idea that this was a very frequent act of violence, ... We won't be able to deny it any longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55048]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system of communications and the spreading of a homogenous mentality over vast areas.But when the hour and the right material are at hand, the contagion spreads with the speed of electricity over hundreds of miles, and affects the most diverse populations, which hardly know each other. The message flies through the air and they all suddenly agree on that one issue, if only a sulky admission that "there's got to be a change.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44638]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19871]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2783]]></link><description><![CDATA[For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42522]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55390</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[That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45315]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the house is finisht, leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49093]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the house is finisht, leave it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands defauts.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of Shelly for playing four years of softball. I'm going to nominate her for the North-South all-stars, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of Shelly for playing four years of softball. I'm going to nominate her for the North-South all-stars, because of her attitude and her intensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20912]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   Of himn gave fire to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50892]]></link><description><![CDATA[That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48828]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven   With vain endeavour,    And memory of earth's bitter leaven     Effaced forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56603</guid></item></channel></rss>