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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organised knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organised knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61372]]></link><description><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community service projects, they don't realize they're learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the sense of mystery dominates; unless you feel that mystery, all becomes prosaic -- nothing about God is prosaic.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  August 26, 2000 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   Have you noticed this? Whatever need or trouble you are in, there is always something to help you in your Bible, if only you go on reading till you come to the word God specially has for you. I have noticed this often. Sometimes the special word is in the portion you would naturally read, or in the Psalm for the day, ... but you must go on till you find it, for it is always somewhere. You will know it the moment you come to it, for it will rest your heart.   ... Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways  August 27, 2000 Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.   ... Martin Luther August 28, 2000 Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee: I ugly rushed headlong upon those beautiful things thou hast made. Thou indeed wert with me; but I was not with thee: these beauties kept me far enough from thee: even those, which unless they were in thee, should not be at all.  ... St. Augustine, Confessions August 29, 2000 The Divine Perfections. How shall I praise th' eternal God,  That Infinite Unknown? Who can ascend his high abode,   Or venture near his throne? The great invisible! He dwells  Conceal'd in dazzling light: But his all-searching eye reveals  The secrets of the night. Those watchful eyes that never sleep,  Survey the world around; His wisdom is the boundless deep,  Where all our thoughts are drown'd.  He knows no shadow of a change,  Nor alters his decrees; Firm as a rock his truth remains,   To guard his promises.  Justice, upon a dreadful throne,  Maintains the rights of God; While mercy sends her pardons down,  Bought with a Saviour's blood. Now to my soul immortal King,   Speak some forgiving word; Then `twill be double joy to sing  The glories of my Lord.   ... Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II, #166  August 30, 2000  As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the conduct of American education, the regulation of marriage and divorce, on sex and drink, on how industrial disputes are settled, on how we carry on business? As a plain matter of fact, religion in this country is generally regarded as a tolerated pastime for such people as happen to like to indulge in occasional godly exercises -- as a strictly private matter in an increasingly close-knit and socially acting society -- in other words, as something that does not count. I should like to see the Church recognize that it has been pushed into the realm of the non-essentials, and to persuade it to fight like fury for the right and the duty to bring every act of America and Americans before the bar of God's judgment. [Christian leaders] are making valiant claim to such a right and duty; but the great mass of Church members are content to regard the Church as a conglomerate of private culture clubs, nice for christenings, weddings and funerals. Most Church members readily agree with the unchurched majority that it is not the proper business of the Church to criticize America or Americans.  ... Bernard Iddings Bell, God is Not Dead August 31, 2000 Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls in the river,   A moment white--then melts forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48874]]></link><description><![CDATA[That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering brings experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering brings experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this. I mean, look around, we have this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, the draft is ready, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, the draft is ready,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more  Of mortal griefs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5443]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more  Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep--   Shake the firm nerve, appal the bravest soul!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41144]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25280]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49994]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change brings opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change brings opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel like we feel when we waste our time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. [Lat., Praeterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit: nam licet acriora sint, quae legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent, quae pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The signing of Chad is outstanding because he sets the tone for our football team and the guys up front. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The signing of Chad is outstanding because he sets the tone for our football team and the guys up front. His knowledge of the game and the effort with which he plays are unparalleled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60726]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little given seasonably excuses a great gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to come across as a positive person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to come across as a positive person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave,  Whose sons unaccustom'd to rebel commotion,   Tho' joyous, are sober--tho' peaceful, are brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream of a cat is filled with mice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream of a cat is filled with mice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leonard and Ali made their mark on network television, the Olympics ? Ali on 'Wide World of Sports,' Sugar Ray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leonard and Ali made their mark on network television, the Olympics ? Ali on 'Wide World of Sports,' Sugar Ray on ABC and so forth. By the time they were ready to go for the big bucks, they were household names. In this environment, it's much tougher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In fact, I believe that this government effort is a fishing expedition that unnecessarily disrupts the normal business operations of resellers and the manufacturers that supply them. If the government thought something was really wrong, they wouldn't have cast such a wide net to go hunting. I think this is a classic example of prosecutorial overreach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55373]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55373</guid></item></channel></rss>