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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam  Posse volunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4719]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. -Loretta Girzartis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Anderson understands that Evelyn runs the risk of seeming a little too saintly.] That's why the character of Tuff is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37205]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Anderson understands that Evelyn runs the risk of seeming a little too saintly.] That's why the character of Tuff is such a great sounding board, because she's the one who says, `How can you bear it?' ... And Evelyn Ryan, being who she was, could find satisfaction in any situation that she was living in. She found the magic, and the profundity, in the act of raising children. And, oh man, I couldn't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35281]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping us continue as innovators as we chart our course to higher profitability. ... He always takes a big picture view to everything he does while bringing a great deal of wisdom, knowledge and patience to all matters he deals with; qualities that make him the perfect choice to work side by side with me in running the business and operational areas of the network.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7649]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, the medicine of the sick, the strength of the sin-laden, the enlightenment of the ignorant: It was the privilege of the healthy and the instructed. The sick and the ignorant were excluded. They were under the bondage of evil demons. "This people which knoweth not the law are accursed", was the common doctrine of Jews and Greeks. The philosophers addressed themselves only to the well-to-do, the intellectual, and the pure. To the mysteries were invited only those who had clean hands and sound understanding. It was a constant marvel to the heathen that the Christians called the sick and the sinful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the mind and body act on one another, and according to which one mind acts on another; but it is certain that a great part of this mutual action can be reduced to general laws, and that the more we know of such laws, the greater our power to benefit others will be. When, through the operation of such laws, surprising events take place, [we may] cry out, ... "Such is the will of God," instead of setting ourselves to inquire whether it is the will of God to give us power to bring about or prevent such results; then our conduct is not piety but sinful laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24646]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15154]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of a face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of a face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so lost for you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the watermen that row one way and look another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the watermen that row one way and look another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the test of the new life sermon; the girding on of armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873   When I trouble myself over a trifle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873   When I trouble myself over a trifle, even a trifle confessed -- the loss of some little article, say -- spurring my memory, and hunting the house, not from immediate need, but from dislike of loss; when a book has been borrowed of me and is not returned, and I have forgotten the borrower; and fret over the missing volume, ... is it not time that I lost a few things, when I care for them so unreasonably? This losing of things is the mercy of God: it comes to teach us to let them go. Or have I forgotten a thought that came to me, which seemed of the truth? I keep trying and trying to call it back, feeling a poor man until that thought be recovered -- to be far more lost, perhaps, in a notebook into which I shall never look again to find it! I forget that it is live things that God cares about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He assembled a management team who, under his skilled leadership, guided American through the early days of deregulation and built ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35680]]></link><description><![CDATA[He assembled a management team who, under his skilled leadership, guided American through the early days of deregulation and built it into one of the world's preeminent airlines,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/212]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the "functional whole" is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40471]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the communities of the faithful, men had to impress upon themselves and upon others what Jesus said and did, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6195]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the communities of the faithful, men had to impress upon themselves and upon others what Jesus said and did, for the more convinced they were that he was neither a Jewish pretender nor an unsubstantial deity like one of the deities of the cults, the more urgent it was for them to recall that his words were the rule of their life, and that his actions in history had created their position in the world; they had to think out their faith, to state it against outside criticism, and to teach it within their own circle, instead of being content with it as a mere emotion; they had also to refresh their courage by anticipating the future, which they believed was in the hands of their Lord. The common basis of their life was the conviction that they enjoyed a new relationship with God, for which they were indebted to Jesus. The technical term for this relationship was "covenant", and "covenant" became eventually in their vocabulary "testament". Hence the later name for these writings of the church, when gathered into a sacred collection, was "The New Testament" -- New because the older relationship of God to his people, which had obtained under Judaism, with its Old Testament was superseded by the faith and fellowship which Jesus Christ his Son had inaugurated. It was the consciousness of this that inspired the early Christians to live, and to write about the origin and applications of this new life. They wrote for their own age, without a thought of posterity, and they did not write in unison but in harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world 's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55658]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world 's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard; Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel respects Rev. Robertson and accepts his apology, which reflects his true friendship and support for the state of Israel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel respects Rev. Robertson and accepts his apology, which reflects his true friendship and support for the state of Israel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32600</guid></item></channel></rss>