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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25326]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15378]]></link><description><![CDATA[But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team, ... We had one or at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38257]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team, ... We had one or at least two shots at it. We didn't come up with it. The big play came when we had a big fourth down play. We had a stop and the kid (Perry) scrambled and scored, we have been victimized by that all year long. You live and die by it and I'm still proud of our team and hats off to Brandywine, they made the plays when they had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conscious water saw its God and blushed.   - Richard Crashaw, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conscious water saw its God and blushed.   - Richard Crashaw,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon sustained a low-grade groin injury. He'll have a diagnostic scan to find out the extent of his injury. Simon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simon sustained a low-grade groin injury. He'll have a diagnostic scan to find out the extent of his injury. Simon will undergo treatment and we'll review his situation ahead of Sunday's game in Sydney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3797]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater weight than our self-interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, they passed it on to the highway department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early herbs are springing:    When the brookside, bank, and grove     All with blossom laden,      Shine with beauty, breathe of love,       Woo the timid maiden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're obviously looking forward to the Swedish Rally, as it's one of the most enjoyable rallies of the year for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31707]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're obviously looking forward to the Swedish Rally, as it's one of the most enjoyable rallies of the year for a driver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mask of gold hides all deformities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9476]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mask of gold hides all deformities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833   The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox "pilgrims" and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane -- not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15006]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51864]]></link><description><![CDATA[How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6109]]></link><description><![CDATA[To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47071]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833  We must always be on our guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.  ... St. Basil the Great  January 3, 1998  Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel... Mission is at the heart of the divine reality. It is the will of God and the Kingdom of God which are to be made known. Wherever we are, our purpose is not to propagate the Church as an end in itself, but to proclaim Christ as Lord of all life and as Saviour of all men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on remedies, not faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on remedies, not faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the treatment of prisoners is concerned ... it is clear that all 25 member states having signed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35206]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the treatment of prisoners is concerned ... it is clear that all 25 member states having signed up to European Convention on Human Rights, and to the International Convention Against Torture, are due to respect and fully implement the obligations deriving from those treaties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3112]]></link><description><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/988]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11049</guid></item></channel></rss>