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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:   "To rise above the little things." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/324]]></link><description><![CDATA[One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:   "To rise above the little things."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58605]]></link><description><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11788]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3637]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby was not wrapped in any shroud.    The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed     That men's eyes might not see      Her misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6556]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21202]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3176]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cellsthey occupied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cellsthey occupied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not supply gas to the national grid until the government settles our bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30569]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not supply gas to the national grid until the government settles our bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29877]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,  There is society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46694]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,  There is society where none intrudes   By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With faces like dead lovers who died true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14870]]></link><description><![CDATA[With faces like dead lovers who died true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride, and worldly honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185]]></link><description><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8118]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, should have chosen the analogy of criminal law, for the analogy is incompatible with the Christian belief in God as the creator of Man. Criminal laws are laws, imposed on men, who are already in existence, with or without their consent, and, with the possible exception of capital punishment for murder, there is no logical relation between the nature of a crime and the penalty inflicted for committing it. If God created man, then the laws of man's spiritual nature must, like the laws of his physical nature, be laws -- laws, that is to say, which he is free to defy but no more free to break than he can break the law of gravity by jumping out of the window, or the laws of biochemistry by getting drunk -- and the consequences of defying them must be as inevitable and as intrinsically related to their nature as a broken leg or a hangover. To state spiritual laws in the imperative -- Thou shalt love God with all thy being, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself -- is simply a pedagogical technique, as when a mother says to her small son, "Stay away from the window!" because the child does not yet know what will happen if he falls out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, have a conference with the teacher and from there the parent or the teacher can determine the next step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39495]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, have a conference with the teacher and from there the parent or the teacher can determine the next step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,--   Freedom to worship God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman either loves or hates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman either loves or hates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good artists copy, great artists steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good artists copy, great artists steal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64787]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54616]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38559]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47633]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est:  Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58905]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52500]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61850]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53873</guid></item></channel></rss>