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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Eric was in control the entire match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eric was in control the entire match.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9438]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure that he did not start to load his shit into a truck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve and thou art free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve and thou art free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The AP] informed us last semester their operations were to shut down, ... It caught us by surprise originally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34042]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The AP] informed us last semester their operations were to shut down, ... It caught us by surprise originally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is better for the environment than the standard diesel we're using. And the second thing to consider is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31272]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is better for the environment than the standard diesel we're using. And the second thing to consider is the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21111]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[) Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18902]]></link><description><![CDATA[) Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still of countless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7596]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still of countless price God will provide for sacrifice. The trivial round, the common task Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves -- a road To bring us daily nearer God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44137]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good reputation is more valuable than money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good reputation is more valuable than money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition, from the man who did the waking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61119]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19502]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17109]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am refreshed after the break, and ready to attack the final races of the year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am refreshed after the break, and ready to attack the final races of the year,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34887</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[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40395]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial heart. The heart is connected to a 350-pound machine, which is about the size of a dishwasher, and six feet of hose hooks the machine to pumps in Adams' chest.] I've just got to sit and wait, ... Everywhere I go, engineers have to push the box around with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the postponement is to re-examine the issue to explore all the options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the postponement is to re-examine the issue to explore all the options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. - In Memoriam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded. Of course, it would've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40103]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded. Of course, it would've been more fun if we'd had a rider in the break, but I'm pretty satisfied with the fact that we had three guys in the second group with all the big favourites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thames is liquid history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thames is liquid history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It felt like people were squeezing on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11665]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7234]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got room to fill out. He's a strong kid, he's just lean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28635]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got room to fill out. He's a strong kid, he's just lean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church because of many great misdeeds, not of one man or another but of almost all the people, we claim too much for ourselves if we dare withdraw at once from the communion of the church just because the morals of all do not meet our standard, or even square with the profession of Christian faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7570</guid></item></channel></rss>