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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51225]]></link><description><![CDATA[What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety. [Lat., Quo res cunque cadant, unum et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety. [Lat., Quo res cunque cadant, unum et commune periculum,  Una salus ambobus erit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock and verdue,   The abodes of happy millions, were no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is met and destroyed with courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music -- not only across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35215]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music -- not only across genres but across generations as well, ... In our sixth year, the spotlight continues to shine not only on established performers but on emerging singers and songwriters and the creative professionals who usually remain behind the scenes. It's inspiring to see so many albums, songs, and music makers getting due recognition from their peers, as well as such a cross section of genres being recognized. There will be much to celebrate on November 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43465]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let but my scarlet head appear And I am held in scorn;  Yet juice of subtile virtue lies  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let but my scarlet head appear And I am held in scorn;  Yet juice of subtile virtue lies   Within my cup of curious dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,   Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit us when our wealth is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit us when our wealth is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from any guiltiness; but when I have committed it, it often seems so deep that I cannot escape without drowning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26448]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away athis rock perhaps a hundred times without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22622]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away athis rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it wasnot that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have received so much support since I've arrived here from the fans and the coaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have received so much support since I've arrived here from the fans and the coaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22340]]></link><description><![CDATA[An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55733]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first game up there we had a chance to close the door and they came back and tied the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first game up there we had a chance to close the door and they came back and tied the score and won the game. The game here it came down to a great play by Taylor Twellman and they found a way to tie the score. We just have to find a way to do that little bit extra to finish off a game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33245]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for private institutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeling in that arena.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58320]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon a hill, as I do now,   To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,    Thereby to see the minutes, how they run--     How many makes the hour full complete,      How many hours brings about the day,       How many days will finish up the year,        How many years a mortal man may live;         When this is known, then to divide the times--          So many hours must I tend my flock,           So many hours must I take my rest,            So many hours must I contemplate,             So many hours must I sport myself;              So many days my ewes have been with young,               So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,                So many months ere I shall shear the fleece.                 So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,                  Passed over to the end they were created,                   Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.                    Ah, what a life were this!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would make a lovely corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17047]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would make a lovely corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man: He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;  But consistency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man: He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;  But consistency still wuz a part of his plan;   He's been true to one party, and that is, himself;--    So John P.     Robinson, he      Sez he shall vote for Gineral C.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let that flea stick in the wa', when the dirt's dry, it'll rub out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let that flea stick in the wa', when the dirt's dry, it'll rub out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be the first team in the state of North Carolina to win a national championship in football. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31874]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be the first team in the state of North Carolina to win a national championship in football. People say I must be nuts. Well, maybe I am. ... We all have goals. Why wouldn't they be the highest?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. -All 's Well that Ends Well. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. [It., Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. [It., Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as muchas you can. GIVE as much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21307]]></link><description><![CDATA[EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as muchas you can. GIVE as much as you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21307</guid></item></channel></rss>