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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They will swear black is white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50521]]></link><description><![CDATA[They will swear black is white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24836]]></link><description><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27564]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At lovers' perjuries, They say Jove laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51469]]></link><description><![CDATA[At lovers' perjuries, They say Jove laughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have done beginning, if we determine to begin with proof. We shall ever be laying our foundations; we shall turn theology into evidences, and divines into textuaries... Life is for action. If we insist on proofs for everything, we shall never come to action: to act you must assume, and that assumption is faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life so short, the craft so long to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has nothing to do with press now; it has become a political affair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29420]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has nothing to do with press now; it has become a political affair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34315]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no therapeutic interventions were necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold our worst child abusers fully accountable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage thatcounts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage thatcounts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis  Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469]]></link><description><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core principles of underwriting claims very well managed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,  Moves in an instant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,  Moves in an instant, if the buzzing Flie   Stir but a string of her Lawn Canopie.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationshipsmoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationshipsmoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness withoutpain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1371]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,  Feed on her damask cheek. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51525]]></link><description><![CDATA[She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,  Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;   And, with a green and yellow melancholy,    She sat like Patience on a monument,     Smiling at grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23282]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little by little one walks far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little by little one walks far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8993]]></link><description><![CDATA[If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep us on the right track, leading to a richer, more benevolent society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209</guid></item></channel></rss>