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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage.  Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53762]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his meals I ween,   In his cell so lone and cold.    . . . .     Creeping where no life is seen,      A rare old plant is the ivy green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a team, we had a little higher expectations coming in. But we've had to look at Plan B. We've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40927]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a team, we had a little higher expectations coming in. But we've had to look at Plan B. We've tried to evaluate performance rather than wins and losses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.   - William Edmondstoune Aytoun, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.   - William Edmondstoune Aytoun,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11038]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery   Than crushing His African children with slavery,    Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon     Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion,      Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows,       Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65020]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship consists in the service of the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship consists in the service of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is a great charm of eloquence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is a great charm of eloquence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5832]]></link><description><![CDATA[While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's critical that as the host nation, Canadian athletes have spectacular results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's critical that as the host nation, Canadian athletes have spectacular results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth comes but once in a lifetime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth comes but once in a lifetime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains tomorrow, or it rains for the next week, then you're missing your entire month or quarter. It's a thin business as far as margins are concerned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10099]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought this land to!--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63836]]></link><description><![CDATA[People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9911]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the right to do as the law permits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how full of briars is this working-day world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51228]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how full of briars is this working-day world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire at all. President Bush is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31198]]></link><description><![CDATA[For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire at all. President Bush is asking us to have faith in things unseen. We only have that kind of faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11519]]></link><description><![CDATA[What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2380]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we could be competitive and challenge for it. Playing tough and beating them (Great Falls and Lewisville) are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we could be competitive and challenge for it. Playing tough and beating them (Great Falls and Lewisville) are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19875]]></link><description><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51827</guid></item></channel></rss>