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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56858]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twentieth century, the secularists, still living off the spiritual capital of Christianity, often pretended to chide Christians for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6308]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twentieth century, the secularists, still living off the spiritual capital of Christianity, often pretended to chide Christians for having invented the term "secularist," a term which, they said, was devoid of meaning. Their leaders knew very well, however, that secularism, like any other parasite, derives its sustenance from the object on which it feeds, and so they were rather pleased when milquetoast Christians timidly offered, as a definition of secularism, "living as though God did not exist." What Christians should have called it was, rather, "a contemptibly fraudulent way of living on the cheap, by reaping the maximum fruits of Christian effort, while contributing the minimum effort of your own." When secularists accused Christians of "living in the past," the Christians ought to have retaliated by pointing out that secularists were "living off the past." By the time they got around to doing so, however, the majority of secularists had become morally incapable of seeing the point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to read Shakespeare but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to read Shakespeare but to act it and perform it didn't. That is the perfect illustration of why these students should get honors credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WFP intends to continue helping the refugees but it can only do so with the help of the international community. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29101]]></link><description><![CDATA[WFP intends to continue helping the refugees but it can only do so with the help of the international community. That help is needed more than ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame thenightmares because of my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame thenightmares because of my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday  Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday  Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12326]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We would like to see much greater commitment from Iran to the dialogue and to ensuring that the dialogue results in real progress achieved on the ground. We are frankly disappointed that Iran has not yet agreed dates for the next round, and [we] will continue to press them. Iran's attitude to human rights is damaging its reputation in the international community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone who can help, to help. So good luck to them. And when I go back home I will continue to work on their behalf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not found in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not found in the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52114]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should;  But made a trail all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should;  But made a trail all bent askew,   A crooked trail as all calves do.    . . . .     And men two centuries and a half      Trod in the footsteps of that calf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most difficult task facing us today is to persuade the person who is enjoying Christian culture and Christian standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most difficult task facing us today is to persuade the person who is enjoying Christian culture and Christian standards that these do not survive of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may not like this man. You may hate his guts. But you can't convict him on the indictment the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32949]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may not like this man. You may hate his guts. But you can't convict him on the indictment the government brought to this court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same problems of an uncertain economy, uncertain earnings and the Middle East problem, which has not changed,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty. Not only has liberty nothing to do with any other sort of equality, but it is even bound to produce inequality in many respects. This is the necessary result and part of the justification of individual liberty: if the result of individual liberty did not demonstrate that some manners of living are more successful than others, much of the case for it would vanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9873]]></link><description><![CDATA[With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52041]]></link><description><![CDATA[...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one of the top fighters at that gym, but Cliff had the endurance. He had a lot of heart and persevered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the peace process should soon be back on track, hopefully with everyone involved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the peace process should soon be back on track, hopefully with everyone involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53663]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so a teammate could wrestle in the region. He could have had an easier time qualifying for the state at 189, but you have to admire someone who puts their teammates first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face the fact that there is in this teaching a revolutionary element which could be dangerously subversive of our existing ways of thought. Let us admit that it is part of the fallen human nature of ecclesiastics, no less than of others in responsible positions, to desire always criteria of judgement which can be used without making too heavy demands upon the delicate faculty of spiritual discernment, clear-cut rules by which we may hope to be saved from making mistakes -- or rather, from being obviously and personally responsible for the mistakes. We are uncomfortable without definite principles by which we may guide our steps. We fear uncharted country, and the fanatics of all kinds who, upon the alleged authority of the Holy Spirit, summon us with strident cries in all directions simultaneously. Only those who have never borne the heavy burden of pastoral responsibility will mock at the cautious spirit of the ecclesiastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56940</guid></item></channel></rss>