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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He dies, and makes no sign. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55983]]></link><description><![CDATA[He dies, and makes no sign. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42078]]></link><description><![CDATA[These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27242]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60480]]></link><description><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,   As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome that. Their game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome that. Their game came together and they played really well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become whom we eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39958]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a disposable society, but here, you keep and reuse. I once ordered a part and had it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a disposable society, but here, you keep and reuse. I once ordered a part and had it delivered. The part was $10. The delivery was $90. After that, you tend to weigh those decisions a little more carefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of church, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of church,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want peace, work for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23603]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want peace, work for justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're taking whatever they can find. Granted, there are a lot of memories associated with the place. But it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31499]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're taking whatever they can find. Granted, there are a lot of memories associated with the place. But it is unsafe and it is privately owned, no matter what they think. The fences are up for a reason. It's awful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monotheism is a gift from the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monotheism is a gift from the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64424]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61210]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!  Be every bar, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!  Be every bar, and every star,   Displayed in full and glorious manner!    Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying!     Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the best,   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   The sinewy vigor of the traveller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57900]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23574]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56896]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17377]]></link><description><![CDATA[And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45854]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14167</guid></item></channel></rss>