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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a gentleman farmer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a gentleman farmer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5126]]></link><description><![CDATA[To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19480]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn March 16, 2000 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2860]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mass evangelism undoubtedly has its place; parochial missions can make their contribution; a specially gifted evangelist can proclaim his message; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mass evangelism undoubtedly has its place; parochial missions can make their contribution; a specially gifted evangelist can proclaim his message; the specialist Christian can make his contribution in factory, in politics and in teaching; all these are genuine contributions to the evangelistic activity of the Christian Church: but in the last analysis it is the worshipping community, that part of the Body of Christ that worships, lives and proclaims the Gospel in all its activities in any given neighborhood, which is the real evangelising agent used by the Spirit of God. It is here amongst the people, that the Church must worship and live its life. If it is faithful both to God and to its Gospel, it will be used to hold forth the Word of light to the conversion of those that see and hear. But if its light is hid, then wherewith shall the neighborhood be lighted?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards into turning it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards into turning it over a little bit. We forced them to take some poor shots in the third quarter. That gave us an opportunity to get up the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27128]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56425]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard    Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles    Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20279]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17205]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18219]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! what would the world be to us  If the children were no more? We should dread the desert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! what would the world be to us  If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us  Worse than the dark before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... never occurs. Now, I do not want here to discuss whether the miraculous is possible: I only want to point out that this is a purely philosophical question. Scholars, as scholars, speak on it with no more authority than anyone else. The canon, "If miraculous, unhistorical", is one they bring to their study of the texts, not one they have learned from it. If one is speaking of authority, the united authority of all the Biblical critics in the world counts for nothing. On this they speak simply as men -- men obviously influenced by, and perhaps insufficiently critical of, the spirit of the age they grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16284]]></link><description><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see a trout rise to an unknown fly   Then your heart starts to thump and you wonder why    You're a neophyte fly fisherman.     You can measure the cast and study the lie      Then lengthen the line to make your first try       As you check the rod to get a good presentation        You hold your breath in solemn anticipation         You must be a fly fisherman!          The fly floats gently on its way to the trout           You know it will "take it" without a doubt.            You're all charged up and ready to strike             But the fly floats by because something's not right              You are still a fly fisherman.               You open your fly box and select a new fly                Then lengthen the tippet before the next try                 Change your position to help with the cast                  And hope you have made the right decision at last                   Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46891]]></link><description><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11569]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16661]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year it always happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39775]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year it always happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the night-dew, fain headed,    And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem     The fittest foliage for a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66204]]></link><description><![CDATA[True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2042</guid></item></channel></rss>