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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17155]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48190]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know what we are, but know not what we may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12308]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65162]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine,  But he that flieth in good tide  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine,  But he that flieth in good tide   Perhaps may fight again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a game we knew would be a dogfight. We knew Marquette was a big, physical team that liked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31296]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a game we knew would be a dogfight. We knew Marquette was a big, physical team that liked to play a tough, physical game and the officials let us play that way tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21437]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We struggled on serving, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We struggled on serving,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with a ticket is now a 'ticket broker,' so how you describe the secondary market is becoming blurry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with a ticket is now a 'ticket broker,' so how you describe the secondary market is becoming blurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who make history have not time to write it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who make history have not time to write it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like we're bringing them some obscure things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52714]]></link><description><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They called the windlackadaisical..but because he in freedom blowsthe world will neverlack for daisies..(to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4027]]></link><description><![CDATA[They called the windlackadaisical..but because he in freedom blowsthe world will neverlack for daisies..(to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of wild lawns)http://www.epa.gov/greenacreshttp://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57261]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's kicking, so he's alive and active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42637]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's kicking, so he's alive and active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hates vice hates men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60540]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hates vice hates men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man is vile;    In vain with lavish kindness     The gifts of God are strown;      The heathen in his blindness       Bows down to wood and stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ceremony as wanting to support the office and the institution in the face of some controversy that's been around Madame Jean, and a desire to be visible in support of her,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mumble a lot off-stage, I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend and I say something, he won't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mumble a lot off-stage, I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend and I say something, he won't hear me, he'll say 'What?'. So I'll say it again, but once again he doesn't hear me, so he says 'What?'. But really it's just some insignificant sh*t that I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, 'That tree is far away.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it 'dull' that Jesse James once got bitten on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it 'dull' that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56649]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All married women are not wives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61567]]></link><description><![CDATA[All married women are not wives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47572]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power- God, history, fate, nation or humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the busy haunts of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8767]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the busy haunts of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17949]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43090]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43090</guid></item></channel></rss>