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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never used a needle in my life. I picked up 62 needles around my yard ? 10 right out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34045]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never used a needle in my life. I picked up 62 needles around my yard ? 10 right out in front.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could hear it off the bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40569]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could hear it off the bat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14320]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely,  And grace your simple rustic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10984]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely,  And grace your simple rustic gown   With a beauty more than queenly.    Though only one for you shall care,     One only speak your praises;      And you never wear in your shining hair,       A richer flower than daisies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no delight in owning anything unshared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24456]]></link><description><![CDATA[A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of life is determined by its activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of life is determined by its activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last four games we had great practices. For four weeks we concentrated on defensive intensity and finishing games out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last four games we had great practices. For four weeks we concentrated on defensive intensity and finishing games out. The 1-3-1 zone has been working really well for us. We force turnovers by the other team and get the fast break going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jade eates as much as a good horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49041]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jade eates as much as a good horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the Social Democrats that did not want German reunification. It was the Christian Democrats who supported German reunification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the Social Democrats that did not want German reunification. It was the Christian Democrats who supported German reunification.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'Oh yeah, it's a smash.' We liked the song but didn't know if it would be the best to debut the album with. But there is something special about the song. People caught onto it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam  Posse volunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,  His early dreams of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5644]]></link><description><![CDATA[With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,  His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth,   And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43767]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community service projects, they don't realize they're learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12187]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In campaigns, the goal is to be a stable leader, clear on your record, accomplishments and base, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31215]]></link><description><![CDATA[In campaigns, the goal is to be a stable leader, clear on your record, accomplishments and base,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55496]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   Our critical day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63722]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is settled anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is settled anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very, very impressive. In a way, he pulled a mini version of Normann last year. He got away and made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very, very impressive. In a way, he pulled a mini version of Normann last year. He got away and made it hold up with a solid run. He's the real deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944]]></link><description><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So hungry I could eat a horse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20142]]></link><description><![CDATA[So hungry I could eat a horse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is low in the index, and probably it makes sense to collapse the dual-listed structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is low in the index, and probably it makes sense to collapse the dual-listed structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item></channel></rss>