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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  Christ became ever more and more painfully convinced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  Christ became ever more and more painfully convinced that men did not know God. They can't, He said, or they could not live as they are doing. Some of them are so anxious and worried, with all God's care and strength and love to lean against! They cannot know of it, and be so fidgety and nervous as they are. Some of them are afraid. Their consciences have drawn so grim a picture of Him that fearfully they shrink out of His presence, wish there were not God! Frightened of God, with His free and full and eager forgiveness, with His incredible generosity, with His compassionate heart that nobody can sour into illwill, do what he may. And even the best of them are not quite sure. Their faith at most is but a timorous hope, and a trembling perhaps; no more. Often in the Synagogue He had watched them sobbing out their penitential psalms and begging God to turn from anger and be gracious toward them... And it amazed Christ. Look at His sun, He cries, how it streams down in all its midday fullness on the most unworthy, and at the rain, how it falls healingly upon the fields of the least grateful, and how He keeps thrusting His benefits and blessings into the most soiled hands, loading the most impossible people with His kindnesses. If only I could make them see God as He really is: if only they could realize that He is their Father, that what their own child is to them, that, and far more, each of them is to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart enforcement I think is what is going to get us there; and utilization of the tools that MSHA already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart enforcement I think is what is going to get us there; and utilization of the tools that MSHA already has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2727</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[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were just smart business moves to make. This network is a bit more agile and competitive when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35282]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were just smart business moves to make. This network is a bit more agile and competitive when it is a smaller group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10647]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry.  Make holiday: your rye-straw hats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19577]]></link><description><![CDATA[You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry.  Make holiday: your rye-straw hats put on,   And these fresh nymphs encounter every one    In country footing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity,  The adorner and refresher of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity,  The adorner and refresher of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bellfrom Cyrano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bellfrom Cyrano.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Without realizing what was happening, most of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27877]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone?  Had He life, or had He none? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone?  Had He life, or had He none?   If he had not liv'd for thee,    Thou hadst died most wretchedly     And two deaths had been thy fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action -- you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things... You are not called to get to heaven, to do good, or to be good -- you are called to belong to Jesus Christ. The doing good, the being good, and the getting to heaven, are the by-products of that belonging. The center of conversion is the belonging of a person to a Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23370]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. -Troilus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate To tell again a tale once fully told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In other words, business travelers are behaving like leisure travelers to qualify for a better price. That puts the airlines, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42418]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In other words, business travelers are behaving like leisure travelers to qualify for a better price. That puts the airlines, particularly the ailing network airlines, in a tight spot.] Profits are elusive, ... Airlines either need to raise fares, or the price of oil has to come down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time we try to move a piece of furniture, it just falls apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time we try to move a piece of furniture, it just falls apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall for lithography, we still need to shrink for these guys to get two microprocessors on a chip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall for lithography, we still need to shrink for these guys to get two microprocessors on a chip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When building a team, I first look for people who love towin, if I can't find any of those, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22356]]></link><description><![CDATA[When building a team, I first look for people who love towin, if I can't find any of those, then I look for people who hate tolose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer  In health--when ill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26684]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer  In health--when ill, we call them to attend us,   Without the least propensity to jeer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang  Shoots through the conscious heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang  Shoots through the conscious heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're primarily in the business of pulling oil out of the ground, so it's generally a benefit to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37549]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're primarily in the business of pulling oil out of the ground, so it's generally a benefit to them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry,  Whence this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry,  Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me?   And from within a thrilling voice replies,    Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts     Rush on my mind, a thousand images;      And I spring up as girt to run a race!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always try to be positive with the kids. The girls played a lot of tournament golf over the summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30431]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always try to be positive with the kids. The girls played a lot of tournament golf over the summer and where down here two times. I think it helped us handle the pressure. To be 45 strokes better and tie for second tells you how tough a field it is. It's almost unbelievable. I couldn't be more proud of the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30431</guid></item></channel></rss>