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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half she was struggling but when she turns a corner or hits a shot or steps up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half she was struggling but when she turns a corner or hits a shot or steps up and hits a play then it kind of opens things up. Her and Brittney are both the motor that makes us go. So they've got to do well and they both played real composed in the second half and real strong for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47190]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights mean self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg when it is his goose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63939]]></link><description><![CDATA[All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a little leery with the weather like it is. The ice was about six inches thick. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a little leery with the weather like it is. The ice was about six inches thick. It was safe where we went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54398]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Length the Fox turnes Monk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49143]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Length the Fox turnes Monk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards! Dick Maliska  Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. •Jeff Raskin   Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. •Anonymous   The Programmer's Time-Space Continuum is defined as "Programmers continuously space the time." •Leon Lanthier   Computers are useless - they only give you answers. •Pablo Picasso   "Paradosfunctionoracle" is the term used by technicians to describe the reason no one knows why your computer won't work. •J. H. Goldfuss   No machine will increase the possibilities of life. They only increase the possibilities of idleness. •John Ruskin   All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. •Anonymous  Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. •James Magary  Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. •E W Dijkstra  Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. •Popular Mechanics, 1949  Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. •Andy Rooney  Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. •Edward Shepherd Mead  A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. •John Gall   There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. •Bill Gates  If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. •Bill Gates  Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. •MG Siriam   Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. •Tom Fasulo   Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. •William Gibson   URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. •Chris Clark   My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. •Penn Jillett   We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. •Robert Wilensky   It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. •Denise Caruso   Wow! They've got the internet on computers now! •Homer Simpson  Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. •Scott Adams  I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. •Isaac Asimov   Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning. •Rich Cook   If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. •Robert Cringely   I try to get people to see what I have... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams. •Steve Jobs   The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. •Porterfield   People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago. •Anonymous  Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. •Anonymous  But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. •Bruce Leverett  Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9717]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could be that the arms start coming down as (drivers) are going through. Maybe it's just somebody bumping into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38196]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could be that the arms start coming down as (drivers) are going through. Maybe it's just somebody bumping into it. This is typical equipment, and you could have an occasional breakdown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35190]]></link><description><![CDATA[China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is in ruins? The invisible church, composed of all Spirit-baptized persons, is indefectible, it cannot be ruined; against it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6827]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is in ruins? The invisible church, composed of all Spirit-baptized persons, is indefectible, it cannot be ruined; against it "the gates of Hades shall not prevail." The local assembly may indeed by sadly ruined; but it can be restored, as, by the grace of God, has been seen times without number -- at Corinth, for example. The only other institution in question is that agglomeration of sects that is called "Christendom." But that is unrecognized by the New Testament -- it is not of God at all: and that it is "in ruins" is no matter for our regret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure there's going to be resistance, but it's probably time we headed in that direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure there's going to be resistance, but it's probably time we headed in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the secularists secular education if they on their side will promise not to have moral instruction. Secular education seems to me intellectually clean and comprehensible. Moral instruction seems to me unclean, intolerable; I would destroy it with fire. Teaching the Old Testament by itself means teaching ancient Hebrew ethics, which are simple, barbaric rudimentary, and, to a Christian, unsatisfying. Teaching moral instruction means teaching modern London, Birmingham and Boston ethics, which are not barbaric and rudimentary, but are corrupt, hysterical and crawling with worms, and which are to a Christian, not unsatisfying but detestable. The old Jew who says that you must fight only for your tribe is inadequate; but the modern prig who says you must never fight for anything is substantially and specifically immoral. I know quite well, of course, that the unreligious ethics suggested for modern schools do not verbally assert these things; they only talk about peaceful reform, true Christianity, and the importance of Count Tolstoy. It is all a matter of tone and implication--but then, so is all teaching. Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume that really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate can bring two people together...but fate can also pull them apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate can bring two people together...but fate can also pull them apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the last couple of months, I've been contacting clients and giving them that opportunity. You're getting much more bang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35328]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the last couple of months, I've been contacting clients and giving them that opportunity. You're getting much more bang for your buck doing a fixed-rate mortgage than doing an adjustable-rate mortgage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63853]]></link><description><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For washing his hands, none sels his lands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49253]]></link><description><![CDATA[For washing his hands, none sels his lands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didn't. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because they're introduced to them too early or for some other reason, and try to make them entertaining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,  Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest But may imagine how the bird was dead,  Although the kite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest But may imagine how the bird was dead,  Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58564]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35808]]></link><description><![CDATA[We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to put all the information on the Web site. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40459]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to put all the information on the Web site.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5638]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some misapprehension, I say, some obliquity, or some slavish adherence to old prejudices, may thus cause us to refuse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some misapprehension, I say, some obliquity, or some slavish adherence to old prejudices, may thus cause us to refuse the true interpretation, but we are none the less bound to refuse and wait for more light. To accept that as the will of our Lord which to us is inconsistent with what we learned to worship in Him already, is to introduce discord into that harmony whose end is to unite our hearts, and make them whole. "Is it for us," says the objector who, by some sleight of will, believes in the word apart from the meaning for which it stands, "to judge the character of our Lord?" I answer, "This very thing He requires of us." He requires of us that we should do Him no injustice. He would come and dwell with us, if we would but open our chambers to receive Him. How shall we receive Him is, avoiding judgement, we hold this or that daub of authority or tradition hanging upon our walls to be the real likeness of our Lord?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Do those who say, "Lo here, or lo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Do those who say, "Lo here, or lo there, are the signs of His coming", think to be too keen for Him, and spy His approach? When He tells them to watch lest He find them neglecting their work, they stare this way and that, and watch lest He should succeed in coming like a thief!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made; they come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made; they come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54140</guid></item></channel></rss>