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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Death cancels everything but truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death cancels everything but truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60848</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[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11329]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plant often removed cannot thrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plant often removed cannot thrive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are finally starting to click and run our transition like we knew we could. We are throwing and catching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are finally starting to click and run our transition like we knew we could. We are throwing and catching like we do in practice, and we are finally getting settled down in a game situation. Our defense seems to be clicking really nicely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History will be kind to me for I intend to write it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19303]]></link><description><![CDATA[History will be kind to me for I intend to write it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23370]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market got off to a spirited start, but it soon drew to a halt because nobody wants to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market got off to a spirited start, but it soon drew to a halt because nobody wants to take any risk. There is caution, indeed, because of the elections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27126]]></link><description><![CDATA[God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What there really wasn't [information on] was 'what do people think'. We wanted to find out what it's like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39922]]></link><description><![CDATA[What there really wasn't [information on] was 'what do people think'. We wanted to find out what it's like to live in these places from the people who live there; because they would know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14675]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60207]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marketing is what you do when your product is no good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marketing is what you do when your product is no good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be little liking where there is no likeness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28488]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be little liking where there is no likeness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean energy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean energy. It is a healthy energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely don't believe that this was an accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36652]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely don't believe that this was an accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes,  Low in the heather blooms   Sweet will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes,  Low in the heather blooms   Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be!    Emblem of happiness,     Blest is thy swelling-place--      O, to abide in the desert with thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural.*HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural.*HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normally, the appeals process in a case like this takes a couple of months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normally, the appeals process in a case like this takes a couple of months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we've got to support those young men and women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we've got to support those young men and women who are out there protecting our big, fat, bloated lifestyle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a 10 o'clock show at another hotel, but I didn't want a 10 o'clock show. It isn't my crowd and I didn't think it would work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53657]]></link><description><![CDATA[In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15743</guid></item></channel></rss>