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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  It is of great importance that you endeavour, at all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  It is of great importance that you endeavour, at all times, to keep your hearts in peace; that you may keep pure that temple of God. The way to keep it in peace is to enter into it by means of inward silence. When you see yourself more sharply assaulted, retreat into that region of peace; and you will find a fortress that will enable you to triumph over all your enemies, visible and invisible, and over all their snares and temptations. Within your own soul resides divine aid, and sovereign succour. Retreat within it, and all will be quiet, secure, peaceable, and calm. Thus, by means of mental silence, which can only be attained with divine help, you may look for tranquility in tumult: for solitude in company; for light in darkness; for forgetfulness in pressures: for vigour in despondency; for courage in fear; for resistance in temptation; and for quiet in tribulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25136]]></link><description><![CDATA[He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is near and our mutual company is short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is near and our mutual company is short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   The defenders of the Jargon and phrases of the Church's tradition hold that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   The defenders of the Jargon and phrases of the Church's tradition hold that there must of necessity be a specialized vocabulary, just as there is in any other specialized form of human activity, whether it is music, architecture, or electronic engineering. To me, at least, this is a thoroughly unsound argument, for Christ did not come into the world to bring men "specialized activity," but life, fuller and more satisfying than it had been ever before. If the churches have made Christianity appear to be some kind of specialized spiritual performance so much the worse for them. The real purpose of Christ, the real relevance of the Gospel, is surely to enable men to live together as sons of God. Human beings, like children, love to have secrets, love to be "in the know." But the Christian religion was never meant to be a secret recipe for living, held by a few. It is Good News for all mankind and, because it is that, the more clearly and intelligibly it can be presented, the more faithfully it is following its Master's purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49545]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55325]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives in his issue; even so the race   Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine    In his well-turned and true-filed lines;     In each of which he seems to shake a lance,      As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family is not an important thing. It's everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family is not an important thing. It's everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are already witnessing major strains in many of our developing countries, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36693]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are already witnessing major strains in many of our developing countries,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my level than there were 20 years ago. Maybe boards don't want to hire women because they don't meet the archetypal image of the maestro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64559]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57500]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21982]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to livetwice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21872]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to livetwice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was important for us to be patient and see what they were giving us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was important for us to be patient and see what they were giving us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54210]]></link><description><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, and beauties less divine,   Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline;    But yet (so strong the sympathy)     It turns, and points again to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7785]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him that Lazarus had anything to do with him. He was simply unaware of his presence, or, if he was aware of it, he had no sense of responsibility for it... A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  This astonishing sense of spiritual attack which, it seems to me, must inevitably follow the continual reading of the four Gospels, without preconception but with an alert mind, is not the sole privilege of the translator. It can happen to anyone who is prepared to abandon proof-texts and a closed attitude of mind, and allow not merely the stories but the quality of the Figure Who exists behind the stories to meet him afresh. Neat snippets of a few verses are of course useful in their way, but the overall sweep and much of the significance of the Gospel narratives are lost to us unless we are prepared to read the Gospels through, not once but several times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did spot an opportunity in property at a time when the market was neglecting the sector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did spot an opportunity in property at a time when the market was neglecting the sector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is a proud and soaring thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is a proud and soaring thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27327]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27327</guid></item></channel></rss>