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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He might have failed against Sri Lanka but we still believe that he has the potential to serve the country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34854]]></link><description><![CDATA[He might have failed against Sri Lanka but we still believe that he has the potential to serve the country in the longer-version game. We are trying to find a solid combination -- that's why we went for the same team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25389]]></link><description><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17911]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9264]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,   'Tis to thee that I would drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are inmates part of a fix? Absolutely. But to send an inmate out as a quasi-United Nations representative? Who's controlling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are inmates part of a fix? Absolutely. But to send an inmate out as a quasi-United Nations representative? Who's controlling that? Who's running the damn place when you're using peacekeepers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone   In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its internal concerns before its apostolate, its rituals before its ministry. Undue emphasis on the static structure of the Church has led to the disappearance of a significant lay ministry in denominational Protestantism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The style is the man. [Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The style is the man. [Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38929]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is philosophy learned from examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19450]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is philosophy learned from examples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a really classic Northwest way to ring in the New Year, that's for sure. If the weather is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a really classic Northwest way to ring in the New Year, that's for sure. If the weather is good, it's going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. Gradually the results of the action manifested themselves, and, seeing them, they perceived what they had really done, and learnt the meaning of the truth revealed in the action. But if, from fear of the consequences, they had checked or forbidden the action, they would have lost this revelation. They would have missed the way to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3095]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do one thing every day that scares you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do one thing every day that scares you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48987]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15418]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it; For who digs hills because they do aspire  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43316]]></link><description><![CDATA[That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it; For who digs hills because they do aspire  Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18460]]></link><description><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew and felt, at least the one,   The leader of the hand he had undone,--    Who, born for better things, had madly set     His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57460]]></link><description><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29901]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surgery he had last year was the second one he's had and it is just a problem. He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surgery he had last year was the second one he's had and it is just a problem. He is no longer playing. He's in school and he'll finish the semester but he just doesn't feel comfortable with the shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36158]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53787]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53787</guid></item></channel></rss>