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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63753]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak me fair in death. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak me fair in death. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As innocent as a new-laid egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20952]]></link><description><![CDATA[As innocent as a new-laid egg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17622]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's an unbelievable athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True nobility is exempt from fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44563]]></link><description><![CDATA[True nobility is exempt from fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41403]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that influenced me for this film.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer;  Then stooping thence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer;  Then stooping thence (seeming her fall to rew)   Adieu (she saith) adieu, deer Deer, adieu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Before the officers were sworn to their new ranks, several residents spoke publicly at the meeting about the promotions.] I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31149]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Before the officers were sworn to their new ranks, several residents spoke publicly at the meeting about the promotions.] I stand here to say thank you, ... You earned your due. I'm very, very proud of my Police Department in Neptune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expected them to drive to the hoop. I think it might have been one of those instances where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37573]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expected them to drive to the hoop. I think it might have been one of those instances where they were young kids and they have not been here before and they tensed up a little and took those 3-pointers. But, you look at that team and they are so well coached. My guys didn't mind being on defense at the end and I think they were confident and comfortable because they had been in that situation before. The experience of being in the championship game before definitely paid off for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23068]]></link><description><![CDATA["Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56583]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the conscience of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the conscience of the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to get there early...I suggest you wait a week or so, the interest will fade and you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38292]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to get there early...I suggest you wait a week or so, the interest will fade and you should be able to attend. I appreciate your interest in our nation's justice system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. Sometimes I don't [get into foul trouble], and tonight I didn't, and I was able to stay on the floor. I was able to do what I do, which is grab boards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33532]]></link><description><![CDATA[An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had gotten complaints from subcontractors and vendors who were not getting paid in a timely manner. As the complaints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38059]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had gotten complaints from subcontractors and vendors who were not getting paid in a timely manner. As the complaints became more frequent, it was a sign the contractor was having some serious problems and would be unable to fulfill their obligations. That is when it reached the point to protect the commission's interest and take the steps necessary to get the project finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth will be sustained longer than expected. The Fed has more work to do; dollar strength will continue until later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth will be sustained longer than expected. The Fed has more work to do; dollar strength will continue until later this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, it will be much faster than it is now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, it will be much faster than it is now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item></channel></rss>