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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. -Adolph Zukor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1873]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. -Adolph Zukor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1873</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[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials ofknowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials ofknowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37555]]></link><description><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired me in writing 'Panic,' it was 'North by Northwest,' ... Those are my favorite Hitchcock films -- the ones where ordinary, everyday people are going about their lives, and they take this dramatic left turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23454]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words "I baptize thee in the name of Abraham"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;  The fumes of it invade the brain,   And make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;  The fumes of it invade the brain,   And make men giddy, proud, and vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 9/11, security cooperation with Australia became essential - it's part of the grand defense strategy of the US. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40296]]></link><description><![CDATA[After 9/11, security cooperation with Australia became essential - it's part of the grand defense strategy of the US.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthusiasm of its advocates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7461]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service -- just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1928]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35871]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it increases the risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33788</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[The only real training for leadership is leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real training for leadership is leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22958]]></link><description><![CDATA[While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again a different meaning has to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again a different meaning has to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en a crow o' th' same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10497]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en a crow o' th' same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great deal in evil. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is. In a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming on he has the cramp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us (developers) would be doing what we're doing here if it weren't for Betty Hunter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37465]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us (developers) would be doing what we're doing here if it weren't for Betty Hunter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37465</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[A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33500]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer's market is worth more thaneverything I've written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15170]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer's market is worth more thaneverything I've written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12257]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob is the mother of tyrants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob is the mother of tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, the world so loud, And they, the movers of the world, so still! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, the world so loud, And they, the movers of the world, so still!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors are disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors are disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3770]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43084]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   The breadth and depth of [William] Carey's missionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   The breadth and depth of [William] Carey's missionary service [in India] is well illustrated in the principles laid down for themselves by the Serampore Brotherhood to be read three times a year in each station in their charge. Here is a summary:  To set an infinite value on men's souls. To abstain from whatever deepens India's prejudice against the Gospel. To watch for every chance of doing the people good. To preach Christ crucified as the grand means of conversions. To esteem and treat Indians always as equals. To be instant in the nurture of personal religion. To cultivate the spiritual gifts of the Indian brethren, ever pressing upon them their missionary obligation, since only Indians can win India for Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. -Norman Cousins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55230]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. -Norman Cousins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to prophesy their date,   Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still awaiting the results of the audit from the provinces which we have selected randomly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still awaiting the results of the audit from the provinces which we have selected randomly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11670]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recompiling doesn't matter...it's Solaris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recompiling doesn't matter...it's Solaris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57115</guid></item></channel></rss>