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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8949]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility educates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility educates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetousnesse breaks the bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetousnesse breaks the bag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55890]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19431]]></link><description><![CDATA[As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18304]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were off most people's radar for a long time and we were constantly hearing from smaller retailers who were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42574]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were off most people's radar for a long time and we were constantly hearing from smaller retailers who were blowing through the product. It's clear that in certain markets, this brand was almost a cult hit. It's more of a middle America story, but I think they look at bigger markets as having growth potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:  If aught do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:  If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,   She feels it instantly on every side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52874]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet will she blush, here be it said, To bear her secrets so bewrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet will she blush, here be it said, To bear her secrets so bewrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No better than you should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48514]]></link><description><![CDATA[No better than you should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9107]]></link><description><![CDATA[A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46883]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58902]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12340]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46779]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a couple of train wrecks towards the end of the day. We were playing really well through eight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a couple of train wrecks towards the end of the day. We were playing really well through eight holes. These greens are fast and bent. We are not experienced in that area, so we had some experience to gain today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship -- and not as ends in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threatened folk live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threatened folk live long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without music, life would be a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without music, life would be a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42814]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy merchants in the local markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the government wants is to close down civil society in this country. And that means they have to close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41249]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the government wants is to close down civil society in this country. And that means they have to close down us, noncommercial NGOs, which remain the last bastion of the Russian civil society not controlled by the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43094]]></link><description><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47678</guid></item></channel></rss>