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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The increase in gasoline prices and the prospect of a long, expensive winter is depressing sentiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The increase in gasoline prices and the prospect of a long, expensive winter is depressing sentiment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must plough my furrow alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must plough my furrow alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage is not the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage is not the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44323]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've been able to prevent from being explored in the past. It's very meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left  Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13918]]></link><description><![CDATA[England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left  Where English minds and manners may be found,   Shall be constrained to love thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The visiting munchkins will only be performing in Friday, Saturday and Sunday shows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The visiting munchkins will only be performing in Friday, Saturday and Sunday shows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  Reducet in sedem vice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5265]]></link><description><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. •Indira Gandhi  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. •Douglas Adams  There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. •William Bennett  The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. •Robert Frost  When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. •Maksim Gorky  One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. •Elbert Hubbard  It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. •Jerome K Jerome  One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. •Bertrand Russell  Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. •Lily Tomlin  Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. •Robert Benchley  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. •Thomas Edison  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. •Sam Ewing  Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. •David McCullough  Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. •John G. Pollard  Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. •Mark Twain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56828]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't angry. The captain kept cutting us off. He had a smirk on his face. His arrogance was awful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36175]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't angry. The captain kept cutting us off. He had a smirk on his face. His arrogance was awful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider "not spiritual work" I can best help others, and I inwardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7899]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider "not spiritual work" I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interest and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2160]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge people, you have no time to love them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was looking pretty desperate out here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40174]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was looking pretty desperate out here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. -I. Krishnamurti.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make fun of the way I talk and I give it back to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39160]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make fun of the way I talk and I give it back to them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mohammed is all about the team, Mohammed is all about doing whatever it takes to win. He just demonstrates that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mohammed is all about the team, Mohammed is all about doing whatever it takes to win. He just demonstrates that day in and day out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29752]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,--  Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,--  Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven   As make the angels weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be A saint by doing lovely things, or watching late with Thee, Or dreaming in the dawn-light, or storming Heaven's gates, Make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates. Although I must have Martha's hands, I have a Mary mind, And when I black the boots and shoes, Thy sandals, Lord, I find. I think of how they trod the earth, what time I scrub the floor: Accept this meditation, Lord, I haven't time for more. Warm all the kitchen with Thy love, and light it with Thy peace; Forgive me all my worrying, and make my grumbling cease. Thou who didst love to give men food, in room or by the sea, Accept this service that I do -- I do it unto Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not so keen,    Because thou art not seen,     Although thy breath be rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the passion of slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the passion of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32052]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12632]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And you will be damned if you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12632</guid></item></channel></rss>