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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Money doesn't sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the gods are dead except the god of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53582]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the gods are dead except the god of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's the kind of person you want in your corner when all the chips are being played, Hit me! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38109]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's the kind of person you want in your corner when all the chips are being played, Hit me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29551]]></link><description><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46272]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same love and good will as if the business under controversy were already amicably settled and composed. Perhaps someone will interpose here that such moderation is so uniformly absent from any lawsuit that it would be a miracle if any such were found. Indeed, I admit that, as the customs of these times go, an example of an upright litigant is rare; but the thing itself, when not corrupted by the addition of anything evil, does not cease to be good and pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8070]]></link><description><![CDATA["Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he has no "father". God is not my father in particular, or any man's father (horrible presumption and madness!); no, He is only father in the sense of father of all, and consequently only my father in so far as He is the father of all. When I hate someone or deny God is his father, it is not he who loses, but I: for then I have no father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is a dealer in hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is a dealer in hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient custom has the force of law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient custom has the force of law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19789]]></link><description><![CDATA["Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get past the falling-down part. Instead of telling them, 'Oh, well, this first day or two is going to be brutal,' the focus is on the things that will really help them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15306]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2812]]></link><description><![CDATA[But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5784]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52920]]></link><description><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market was really thin throughout the afternoon, with a continuation of profit-taking from yesterday, but then U.S. markets came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market was really thin throughout the afternoon, with a continuation of profit-taking from yesterday, but then U.S. markets came back and capital flowed in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour,  And gather honey all the day   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3914]]></link><description><![CDATA[How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour,  And gather honey all the day   From every opening flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. [Fr., Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise,  Abime tout plutot; c'est l'esprit de l'Eglise.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine,  And I--at any God's for thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine,  And I--at any God's for thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37092]]></link><description><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation appears to be muted, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation appears to be muted,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do anything different because we didn't stop what they had been doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Proposeth, God disposeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man Proposeth, God disposeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2021]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42509]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who could be happy and alone or good? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who could be happy and alone or good?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20851]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46776</guid></item></channel></rss>