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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk as best we can, ... We thought we'd put it on the table, to free up Mr. Polletta to put the path around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22481]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played like seniors at the end, and we've got to make sure they continue to do that throughout the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played like seniors at the end, and we've got to make sure they continue to do that throughout the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death cancels everything but truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death cancels everything but truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a holding pattern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a holding pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49337]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition  Hath been most sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition  Hath been most sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of rain; Grateful for joy, with an endless thanksgiving, Grateful for laughter -- and grateful for pain. Lord, I am glad for the young April's wonder, Glad for the fulness of long summer days; And now when the spring and my heart are asunder, Lord, I give thanks for the dark autumn ways. Sun, bloom, and blossom, O Lord, I remember, The dream of the spring and its joy I recall; But now in the silence and pain of November, Lord, I give thanks to Thee, Giver of all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give not gold for mere expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give not gold for mere expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest,  For time will teach thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest,  For time will teach thee soon the truth,   "There are no birds in last year's nest."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58674]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6565]]></link><description><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest guy you ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest guy you ever met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  The less you feel and the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What power had Ibefore I learned to yield?Shatter me Great Wind!I shall possess the field!Richard Wilbura stanza from his poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26588]]></link><description><![CDATA[What power had Ibefore I learned to yield?Shatter me Great Wind!I shall possess the field!Richard Wilbura stanza from his poem To A Milkweed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the punishment fit the crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the punishment fit the crime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    April 4, 1998  The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity; but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least of all deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And a few Friends, and many Books both true,   Both wise, and both delightful too.    And since Love ne'er will from me flee,     A mistress moderately fair,      And good as Guardian angels are,       Only belov'd and loving me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directly on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28957]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directly on the Internet will mean for the book publishing industry have been vastly overstated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tell a tale to a dead man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51763]]></link><description><![CDATA[You tell a tale to a dead man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who always wait for someone or something to push them to act in line with their purpose may never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who always wait for someone or something to push them to act in line with their purpose may never achieve anything great in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient as thou art,   Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure    Of those physicians that first wounded thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4007</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><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19328]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one of the other medium-tier airlines, outside the big three, are going to be looking at their strategic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one of the other medium-tier airlines, outside the big three, are going to be looking at their strategic operations quite carefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/673</guid></item></channel></rss>