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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's really good. I'm ecstatic and the girls are ecstatic. That's been one of our goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28819]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's really good. I'm ecstatic and the girls are ecstatic. That's been one of our goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The looming threat of a global influenza pandemic demands global, regional and national attention, and preparation and response to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The looming threat of a global influenza pandemic demands global, regional and national attention, and preparation and response to a pandemic is a shared responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;  And this shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;  And this shall make, in every Christian clime,   The bell of Atri famous for all time.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - he looked wasted,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14278]]></link><description><![CDATA[When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33784]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 percent under water. When this happens we can't get our work done, but we can put up with it until the end of February. Then we have to get back to work. When there are breaks in the storm, that allows the water to drain and we can work around that. But when it is just continuous, then we get in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17548]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28447]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That outing had no effect on me today. My arm felt 100 percent. You're going to have a bad day every now and then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in the camp that's staying with the stock. We'll watch [stock prices] go down for a while. We expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in the camp that's staying with the stock. We'll watch [stock prices] go down for a while. We expect it to recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is going to be lots of twists and turns here, and I think both the U.S. and Iraq will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35954]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is going to be lots of twists and turns here, and I think both the U.S. and Iraq will end up making some compromises, accommodations, as we get towards endgame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35954</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[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17715]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a struggle, there can be no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a struggle, there can be no progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21016]]></link><description><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod  Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a cottage I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the supreme law of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The story of the human race is the story of men and womenselling themselves short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The story of the human race is the story of men and womenselling themselves short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25150]]></link><description><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For our men's relay team to come home as All-Americans shows the kind of success they're going to have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For our men's relay team to come home as All-Americans shows the kind of success they're going to have in the outdoor season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At our wittes end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61824]]></link><description><![CDATA[At our wittes end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain at a given distance In amber lies;  Approached, the amber flits a little,--   And that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain at a given distance In amber lies;  Approached, the amber flits a little,--   And that's the skies!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -Dr. Joyce Brothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -Dr. Joyce Brothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45826</guid></item></channel></rss>