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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29787]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already political, and the target now is the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I’d rather be an idiot than lose you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I’d rather be an idiot than lose you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48993]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more depth on the offensive line this year than ever, and we wanted to keep him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more depth on the offensive line this year than ever, and we wanted to keep him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In God we trust; all others must pay cash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10604]]></link><description><![CDATA[In God we trust; all others must pay cash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   [Leaders of the anarchist movement in Amsterdam] call their public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   [Leaders of the anarchist movement in Amsterdam] call their public demonstrations "Happenings". These paintings, these poems, and these demonstrations... are the expression of men who are struggling with their appalling lostness. Dare we laugh at such things? Dare we feel superior when we view their tortured expressions in their art? Christians should stop laughing and take such men seriously. Then we shall have the right to speak again to our generation. These men are dying while they live, yet where is our compassion for them? There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're essentially running a campaign without reporting who their contributors are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39624]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're essentially running a campaign without reporting who their contributors are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really uncharted territory in terms of how you do these things. We're very pleased with how well they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really uncharted territory in terms of how you do these things. We're very pleased with how well they're functioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the sense of mystery dominates; unless you feel that mystery, all becomes prosaic -- nothing about God is prosaic.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  August 26, 2000 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   Have you noticed this? Whatever need or trouble you are in, there is always something to help you in your Bible, if only you go on reading till you come to the word God specially has for you. I have noticed this often. Sometimes the special word is in the portion you would naturally read, or in the Psalm for the day, ... but you must go on till you find it, for it is always somewhere. You will know it the moment you come to it, for it will rest your heart.   ... Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways  August 27, 2000 Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.   ... Martin Luther August 28, 2000 Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee: I ugly rushed headlong upon those beautiful things thou hast made. Thou indeed wert with me; but I was not with thee: these beauties kept me far enough from thee: even those, which unless they were in thee, should not be at all.  ... St. Augustine, Confessions August 29, 2000 The Divine Perfections. How shall I praise th' eternal God,  That Infinite Unknown? Who can ascend his high abode,   Or venture near his throne? The great invisible! He dwells  Conceal'd in dazzling light: But his all-searching eye reveals  The secrets of the night. Those watchful eyes that never sleep,  Survey the world around; His wisdom is the boundless deep,  Where all our thoughts are drown'd.  He knows no shadow of a change,  Nor alters his decrees; Firm as a rock his truth remains,   To guard his promises.  Justice, upon a dreadful throne,  Maintains the rights of God; While mercy sends her pardons down,  Bought with a Saviour's blood. Now to my soul immortal King,   Speak some forgiving word; Then `twill be double joy to sing  The glories of my Lord.   ... Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II, #166  August 30, 2000  As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the conduct of American education, the regulation of marriage and divorce, on sex and drink, on how industrial disputes are settled, on how we carry on business? As a plain matter of fact, religion in this country is generally regarded as a tolerated pastime for such people as happen to like to indulge in occasional godly exercises -- as a strictly private matter in an increasingly close-knit and socially acting society -- in other words, as something that does not count. I should like to see the Church recognize that it has been pushed into the realm of the non-essentials, and to persuade it to fight like fury for the right and the duty to bring every act of America and Americans before the bar of God's judgment. [Christian leaders] are making valiant claim to such a right and duty; but the great mass of Church members are content to regard the Church as a conglomerate of private culture clubs, nice for christenings, weddings and funerals. Most Church members readily agree with the unchurched majority that it is not the proper business of the Church to criticize America or Americans.  ... Bernard Iddings Bell, God is Not Dead August 31, 2000 Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that conceived it sought   Heart's ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59896]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27541]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25243]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25243</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[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year I had them play doubles at tournaments, (and during conference matches) I put them at one and two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year I had them play doubles at tournaments, (and during conference matches) I put them at one and two singles. That was the best way to get success, I put our four best kids in the top four spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows how to take over a game. He's not only a point guard, he's a scorer. Either he's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows how to take over a game. He's not only a point guard, he's a scorer. Either he's going to score, or he's going to get it to someone else to score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and round the prospect wide,   When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54935</guid></item></channel></rss>