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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aesthetics happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aesthetics happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9688]]></link><description><![CDATA[True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54053]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my works? I have an excellent reason; it is lest you should present me with yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12331]]></link><description><![CDATA[All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22390]]></link><description><![CDATA[.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May  New blooming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May  New blooming blossoms 'neath the sun are born,   And all poor April's charms are swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is converted up to the point of becoming a jihad fighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, which you would probably expect him to do. But he's getting more and more refined all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41015]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean at the end where you've got to sign all those papers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less of this cold world the more of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less of this cold world the more of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have big shoes to fill. As the defending state champions there are a lot of expectations on them. Defending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39943]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have big shoes to fill. As the defending state champions there are a lot of expectations on them. Defending the state title is not our focus. We want to develop chemistry, play well as a team and learn to compete. All that is going to prepare us for the toughest district in the state of Texas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The information is used by conservation groups and other agencies to set priorities for funding and research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The information is used by conservation groups and other agencies to set priorities for funding and research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an actual presence of God -- or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great, that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and to prevent their appearance to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges selected Pay By Touch as the winner in this category for bringing an innovative business solution that allows smaller ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges selected Pay By Touch as the winner in this category for bringing an innovative business solution that allows smaller and mid-sized businesses to compete on equal footing with larger businesses -- as well as for their ability to offer this solution to customers around the world. Pay By Touch is combining its technology expertise with business insight to help their clients innovate on important business issues and realize real efficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. -As You Like It. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sure you are right, then go ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sure you are right, then go ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38546]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their goalie played extremely well. He played like he was standing on his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their goalie played extremely well. He played like he was standing on his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943</guid></item></channel></rss>