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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet a lot of mimes choke to death because nobody believes they're really choking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet a lot of mimes choke to death because nobody believes they're really choking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60289]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30809]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. [Fr., Fr., Il n'appartient, qu'aux tyrans d'etre toujours en crainte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59970]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. [Fr., Fr., Il n'appartient, qu'aux tyrans d'etre toujours en crainte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place,  Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place,  Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,   Office, and custom, in all line of order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed a solution that would get all the right information to the drivers as quickly and as cost-effectively as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28197]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed a solution that would get all the right information to the drivers as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39418]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know the public is wildly enthusiastic about both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know the public is wildly enthusiastic about both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64622]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56571]]></link><description><![CDATA[In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48363]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57412]]></link><description><![CDATA[His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is borne Master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is borne Master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last game, and this, we've been eaten up by penalties. Don't blame the boys. It's basically coaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last game, and this, we've been eaten up by penalties. Don't blame the boys. It's basically coaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55911]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11768]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down."  He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke.  I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44250]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not to hear a damned word he says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress  Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,   And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess,    That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the "Tribune" put all this in its pipe and smoke it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the "Tribune" put all this in its pipe and smoke it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not imply a certain divine favoritism, as some seem to think, but an opportunity of grace, a calling that involved the assumption of the servant role among the nations. It was the fact that they had interpreted themselves as special objects of God's favor, and rejected the servant role, that led to their own rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65857</guid></item></channel></rss>