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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical idiots?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were treated like animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were treated like animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why we're doing what we're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35293]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why we're doing what we're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10548]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like He rushed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible  Of speaking truth, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible  Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54926]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, my lips are sewn with thread so thinpostpoems.com. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, my lips are sewn with thread so thinpostpoems.com.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These products are not just engineered to outwit the competition, but more so to reflect the diversity of the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38483]]></link><description><![CDATA[These products are not just engineered to outwit the competition, but more so to reflect the diversity of the American consumer we know so well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd,   And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak in courage is strong in cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak in courage is strong in cunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55331]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11460</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[Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward Jacksonville, into Georgia, etc.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say, 'That's dynamite, baby.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28845]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect any radical breakthroughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Beginning a short series on forgiveness:   Turn your eyes full upon yourselves, and see if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Beginning a short series on forgiveness:   Turn your eyes full upon yourselves, and see if you cannot discover the same fault [that you would judge in another] in yourselves, either in times past or now-a-days. And, if you find it, remember how that it is God's appointing that you shall now behold this sin in another, in order that you may be brought to acknowledge and repent of it; and amend your ways and pray for your brother, that God may grant him repentance and amendment according to His Divine Will. Thus a good heart draws amendment from the sins of others, and is guarded from all harsh judgment and wrath, and preserves an even temper; while an evil heart puts the worst interpretation on all that it sees, and turns it to its own hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Maybe she simply cared in a self-protective way.] Doing something on impulse, ... well, it can work, but there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39533]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Maybe she simply cared in a self-protective way.] Doing something on impulse, ... well, it can work, but there are a lot of examples that say, 'Better to leave well alone and do what you can as a reporter.' You do get into situations where you think, 'What should I do? Shouldn't I intervene? Shouldn't I do something?' I think if you get to that point you have to make a decision. I've said to people, if you feel it's wrong just being a reporter and you can't do enough, well it's time to become an aid worker and train to be someone who really knows what to do. No good standing around snapping a notebook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54866]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may    Occasionally say,     I never never use a big, big D.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner:  Endowed perhaps with genius from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13254]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner:  Endowed perhaps with genius from the gods   But apt to take his temper from his dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23369]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going to have to lower interest rates. The question is by how much? At this point in time, probably a decrease of half a percentage point to three-quarters of a percentage point would make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34275]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all citizens to help the government, to help the military, to help the police in providing information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34275</guid></item></channel></rss>