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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62058]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35789]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we couldn't take Sweden lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. [Fr., On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. [Fr., On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to do something, you will see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to do something, you will see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king can do no wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king can do no wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9636]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vibrancy in Africa. We are offering that gift back to America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28559]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vibrancy in Africa. We are offering that gift back to America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  When everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  When everything we receive from him is received and prized as fruit and pledge of his covenant love, then his bounties, instead of being set up as rivals and idols to draw our heart from him, awaken us to fresh exercises of gratitude and furnish us with fresh motives of cheerful obedience every hour.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always wished for this, but it\'s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always wished for this, but it\'s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,  This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,  This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found,   Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love came first to earth, the Spring Spread rose-beds to receive him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54436]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love came first to earth, the Spring Spread rose-beds to receive him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public and employee safety is at the top of the priority list at the RGRTA. Making technological advancements to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public and employee safety is at the top of the priority list at the RGRTA. Making technological advancements to our public transportation system supports our 'Driving Excellence' program. Our partnership with March Networks is helping us achieve our goal of becoming the number one customer service public transportation system in the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65359]]></link><description><![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years   The horrible Light-House of Hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves- and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there was this big slug of decaying material that introduced a big slug of nutrients into the system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28178]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there was this big slug of decaying material that introduced a big slug of nutrients into the system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that just inspires me even more, ... If you can't get inspired by what he did, then you don't have a pulse because that was awesome the way he won that tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15518]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could not think of it. He began to get frightened, and that is bad for thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;  But if he will thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;  But if he will thy friendly checks forego,   Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, I should say, four elements in a redemptive community. It is personal, with things happening between people as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7101]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, I should say, four elements in a redemptive community. It is personal, with things happening between people as well as to and in them individually; it is compassionate, always eager to help, observant but non judgmental toward others, breathing out hope and concern; it is creative, with imagination about each one in the group and its work as a whole, watching for authentic new vision coming from any of them; and it is expectant, always seeking to offer to God open and believing hearts and minds through which He can work out His will, either in the sometimes startling miracles He gives or in steady purpose through long stretches where there is no special "opening". It may fairly be said that unless one enmeshes himself in this "redemptive fellowship" of the church, he lessens his chances of steady growth and effectiveness, in his Christian life and experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27955]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe  Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine,  To mask their brows and hide their infamy;   But I alone, alone must sit and pine,    Seasoning the earth with show'rs of silver brine,     Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans,      Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58570]]></link><description><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too deere,   Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one of the best feelings ever. To have that many people there that go to school with you cheering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36297]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one of the best feelings ever. To have that many people there that go to school with you cheering loud is an awesome feeling. All the hard work and sacrifice that you make throughout the year is worth it right there. For those two hours, the fans are cheering a loud as they can -- there is no better feeling than your fans cheering for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was also involved in the destruction of Kuwait, looting, pillage, killing, torturing, and taking hostages in Kuwait during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29835]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was also involved in the destruction of Kuwait, looting, pillage, killing, torturing, and taking hostages in Kuwait during the invasion of '91,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise;  Learn all we lacked before; hear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise;  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say   What this tumultuous body now denies;    And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;     And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63685</guid></item></channel></rss>