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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62351]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Considering [this market] is in an era of strong secular trends in basic materials, our firm foresees a period where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Considering [this market] is in an era of strong secular trends in basic materials, our firm foresees a period where resource rich regions of the world like Canada will need to be monitored for ideas. Trade-Ideas meets this need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listento you if you can make a statement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22116]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listento you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, "NoShit!" or at least, "No kidding!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying,  Swift as wind flies over us   Time devouring, slaying. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying,  Swift as wind flies over us   Time devouring, slaying.    [Lat., Lauriger Horatius     Quam dixisti verum;      Fugit curo citius       Tempus edax rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're always looking for a way to enhance service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're always looking for a way to enhance service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be illogical to say, 'Let's have a public meeting and say our offices are closed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be illogical to say, 'Let's have a public meeting and say our offices are closed,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58217]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The neck moves and the shoulders move and the chest lifts and the diaphragm lifts. The pelvis goes up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The neck moves and the shoulders move and the chest lifts and the diaphragm lifts. The pelvis goes up and down. It's soft for the joints and yet it's very energetic and very aerobic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right now to dredge out an area around Pier 6 so we can bring in barges and help facilitate the removal of the debris. But it's going to take months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are immobile and voiceless,and cannot ask for the mercy of water,those trapped caged house plants.In the winter they feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27374]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are immobile and voiceless,and cannot ask for the mercy of water,those trapped caged house plants.In the winter they feel no breezenor are they touched by a hand which frees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59968]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain;  And the wind that saddens, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45373]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain;  And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens,   Are singing the selfsame strain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed--they know the angels are on their side: They know in them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed--they know the angels are on their side: They know in them is the Grace confessed, and for them are the Mercies multiplied;  They sit at the Feet, they hear the Word, they see how truly the Promise runs;   They have cast their burden upon the Lord, and--the Lord He lays it on Martha's sons!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known the Spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This new tunnel entrance is indicative of a new underground facility or the further expansion of the existing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This new tunnel entrance is indicative of a new underground facility or the further expansion of the existing one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55326]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime,  When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm   Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8005]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry, it's not loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry, it's not loaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63985]]></link><description><![CDATA[To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we had it then. The momentum was definitely in our favor. They were timid at the point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we had it then. The momentum was definitely in our favor. They were timid at the point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56947]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful Father, I again appear in Thy presence the wretched misspender of another year which Thy mercy has allowed me. O Lord let me not sink into total depravity, look down upon me, and rescue me at last from the captivity of sin. Impart to me good resolutions, and give me strength and perseverance to perform them. Take not from me Thy Holy Spirit, but grant that I may redeem the time lost, and that by temperance and diligence, by sincere repentance and faithful obedience I may finally attain everlasting happiness, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44761]]></link><description><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,  But thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,   Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,    The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gassed up the car and everything. They are ready to go at any point, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36132]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gassed up the car and everything. They are ready to go at any point,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36132</guid></item></channel></rss>