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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19190]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29415]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor consists in the power of self recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor consists in the power of self recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2845]]></link><description><![CDATA[UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,  Slowly upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,  Slowly upon the amber air unrolled,   The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but they will have to go down later this year for maintenance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain,  And resembles sorrow only   As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain,  And resembles sorrow only   As the mist resembles the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13876]]></link><description><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46272]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted from its roots. That's when I knew something bad was coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/819]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17956]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel like we can play with anybody. Our chemistry is coming together real good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel like we can play with anybody. Our chemistry is coming together real good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5536]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45018]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about the next generation of the CBC. We are a family, and the family goes from generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29622]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about the next generation of the CBC. We are a family, and the family goes from generation to generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have no idea what's going on in industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36012]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have no idea what's going on in industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56944]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35723]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19449]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us bears his own Hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us bears his own Hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the corner from a major confrontation is not in doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They come out with a skill set and a belief that nobody but themselves will control their careers, ... Baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31094]]></link><description><![CDATA[They come out with a skill set and a belief that nobody but themselves will control their careers, ... Baby boomers took a very different approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25754]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always want more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always want more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29020</guid></item></channel></rss>