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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ordinary moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22355]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ordinary moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23057]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be the change we wish to see in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be the change we wish to see in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being present "with" someone, it is a matter of being present " to" someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear Thy voice  calling me to high endeavor. Give me an open mind, O God, a mind ready to receive and to welcome  such new light of knowledge as it is Thy will to reveal to me. Give me open eyes, O God, eyes quick to discover  Thine indwelling in the world which Thou hast made. Give me open hands, O God, hands ready to share with all who are in want  the blessings with which Thou hast enriched my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49038]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe: the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it needs warding off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50279]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly;   Then rose again and bowed her to the people;    When by the Archbishop of Canterbury     She had all the royal makings of a queen,      As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,       The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems        Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir         With all the choicest music of the kingdom          Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted           And with the same full state packed back again            To York Place, where the feast is held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43720]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15714]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13497]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1958]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46858]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying lips are abomination to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying lips are abomination to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460   The evidence for Christian truth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460   The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nucleus is there on the line, but the depth is a major, major question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nucleus is there on the line, but the depth is a major, major question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like it was fixing to come in the back door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this midget, who is not fit to lace Beckham's boots? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this midget, who is not fit to lace Beckham's boots?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be an ACE: Attitude + Commitment = Excellence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be an ACE: Attitude + Commitment = Excellence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5102]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help." -Robert H. Schullder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must lead by example of mercy and forgiveness, a trait every Muslim must have by very definition of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must lead by example of mercy and forgiveness, a trait every Muslim must have by very definition of being a follower of Islam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful when!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44255]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met with [Robert Furniss, director of Parking and Transportation] last week...and it's a very complicated issue. From the parking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met with [Robert Furniss, director of Parking and Transportation] last week...and it's a very complicated issue. From the parking department's perspective there aren't the resources available [to keep the service going off-campus].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest sign of age is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest sign of age is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55766]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46366</guid></item></channel></rss>