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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15825]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51712]]></link><description><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,   Oh God, that I were dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26307]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint abroad, and a devil at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint abroad, and a devil at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To warm their little loves the birds complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4230]]></link><description><![CDATA[To warm their little loves the birds complain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43631]]></link><description><![CDATA[But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed:  So all for love we paired in Spring-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed:  So all for love we paired in Spring--   Blanche and I--ere youth had sped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of our enemies is laid low ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of our enemies is laid low]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.  [Fr., Non e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26245]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.  [Fr., Non e un si bello in tante altre persone,   Natura il fece, e poi roppa la stampa.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60078]]></link><description><![CDATA[An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness fled,   Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground.Whitehead is a political conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, Time shall not see   The hour that tears my soul from thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is past is prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is past is prologue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48261]]></link><description><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness yields tostarlight,to the light of the risingsun, and to thelight of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness yields tostarlight,to the light of the risingsun, and to thelight of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of you nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of you nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13188</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/42521]]></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/42521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days seem to go on endlessly, I await the 'someday' I've always been promised. That 'someday' when things are supposed to be perfect... the 'someday' when I find my place in this unforgiving world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, butas a group decide nothing can be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21189]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, butas a group decide nothing can be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her strength with overmatching waves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. But what is Repentance? Not the last and noblest and most refined achievement of the righteousness of men in the service of God, but the first elemental act of the righteousness of God in the service of men; the work that God has written in their hearts and which, because it is from God and not from men, occasions joy in heaven; that looking forward to God, and to Him only, which is recognized only by God and by God Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52099]]></link><description><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correction does much, but encouragement does more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Correction does much, but encouragement does more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have to have sufficient detail in their plan to both satisfy the court and get the funds they need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42414]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have to have sufficient detail in their plan to both satisfy the court and get the funds they need to exit bankruptcy. They need to show that they have a plan that will function properly for the longer term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42414</guid></item></channel></rss>