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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11919]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's glowing covenant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52942]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's glowing covenant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there, Where most it promises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there, Where most it promises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5325]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  When they inquire into predestination, they are penetrating the sacred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  When they inquire into predestination, they are penetrating the sacred precincts of divine wisdom. If anyone with carefree assurance breaks into this place, he will not succeed in satisfying his curiosity and he will enter a labyrinth from which he can find no exit. For it is not right for man unrestrainedly to search out things that the Lord has willed to be hidden in Himself; nor is it right for him to investigate from eternity that sublime wisdom, which God would have us revere but not understand, in order that through this also He should fill us with wonder. He has set forth by His Word the secrets of His will that He has decided to reveal to us. These He decided to reveal in so far as He foresaw that they would concern and benefit us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, I don't think the final ball was there for us tonight. It got tougher as the game went on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I don't think the final ball was there for us tonight. It got tougher as the game went on because they were dropping a little deeper. We had to start putting more long stuff into the box. [Columbus] does well with that with their big guys in the box.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want him to get discouraged. But you could see he was getting better in practice every day. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want him to get discouraged. But you could see he was getting better in practice every day. We started giving him some game time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27418]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept   With drunken spilth of wine, when every room    Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,     I have retired me to a wasteful cock      And set mine eyes at flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're setting up investment banking now ... people will be on the ground this year. It's one of the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're setting up investment banking now ... people will be on the ground this year. It's one of the big opportunities our senior management sees globally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is going to be the primary issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If the true revelation of God is in Christ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If the true revelation of God is in Christ, the Bible is not properly a revelation, but the History of a Revelation. This is not only a Fact but a necessity, for a Person cannot be revealed in a Book, but must find revelation, if at all, in a Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56218]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. [Fr., Quand nous veoyons un homme mal chausse, nous disons que ce n'est pas merveille, s'il est chausstier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel that something is wrong with you or that you need to be fixed, no one is perfect ..everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel that something is wrong with you or that you need to be fixed, no one is perfect ..everyone is different for a specific reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50793]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HEART PERFUMEA rose fullblownis the opentoall heart.. fragrance flows from it.. the perfume of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25769]]></link><description><![CDATA[HEART PERFUMEA rose fullblownis the opentoall heart.. fragrance flows from it.. the perfume of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we can take out any ads, ... because it would be misleading. We don't have any tickets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we can take out any ads, ... because it would be misleading. We don't have any tickets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself -- a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man, ... when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God... then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. [Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5801]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. [Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that it's terribly disappointing. We'll try to eradicate this, and we'll take strong internal action against the transgressors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,  Until his late life by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,  Until his late life by Archdeacon Coxe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civium in moribus rei publicae salus [The welfare of the state (depends upon) the morals of its citizens] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civium in moribus rei publicae salus [The welfare of the state (depends upon) the morals of its citizens]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56595]]></link><description><![CDATA[[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sent chills down my spine. It was recognition of a student-athlete who did it right, but it was something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sent chills down my spine. It was recognition of a student-athlete who did it right, but it was something more. I just don't know of any other conference where something like that would happen. For me, that's the moment I 'got' it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seen him come in through the balcony door, and he pulled the gun from under his coat. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seen him come in through the balcony door, and he pulled the gun from under his coat. He just started shooting her, then he shot at the pulpit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of our infield is our biggest improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of our infield is our biggest improvement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Humility is the root, mother, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29577]]></link><description><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209</guid></item></channel></rss>