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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28181]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think their response has been very measured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think their response has been very measured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's as good of an outing as he's had all year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38208]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's as good of an outing as he's had all year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   He said to Judas when he betrayed Him: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   He said to Judas when he betrayed Him: "Friend, wherefore art thou come?" Just as if He had said: "Thou hatest me, and art mine enemy, yet I love thee, and am thy friend." ... As though God in human nature were saying: "I am pure, simple goodness, and therefore I cannot will or desire or rejoice in, or do or give anything but goodness. If I am to reward thee for thy evil and wickedness, I must do it with goodness, for I am and have nothing else."   ... Theologia Germanica  June 7, 2002   Some will not believe in miracles because the laws of nature work uniformly. But their uniformity is undisturbed by human operations; the will of man wields, without cancelling, these mighty forces which surround us: and why may not the will of God do the same?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wonderful job for baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful job for baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft,  Without an inch of rigging on;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3629]]></link><description><![CDATA[There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft,  Without an inch of rigging on;   I looked and looked--and laughed.    It seemed so curious that she     Should cross the unknown water,      And moor herself within my room--       My daughter! O my daughter!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At risk, there is the Bank of Italy and the economy minister, who could end up resigning on the eve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35811]]></link><description><![CDATA[At risk, there is the Bank of Italy and the economy minister, who could end up resigning on the eve of the 2006 budget,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46100]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humansthan vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humansthan vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;  Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;  Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings   Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts    Calls up the tuneful nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we actually see a suit of any sort we can't comment on anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we actually see a suit of any sort we can't comment on anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55375]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When's it going to get real? When are there going to be two sides? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40965]]></link><description><![CDATA[When's it going to get real? When are there going to be two sides?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum  Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23906]]></link><description><![CDATA[MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God always takes the simplest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66761]]></link><description><![CDATA[God always takes the simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life to-day that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin.   Let me use disappointment as material for patience:   Let me use success as material for thankfulness:   Let me use suspence as material for perseverance:   Let me use danger as material for courage:   Let me use reproach as material for longsuffering:   Let me use praise as material for humility:   Let me use pleasures as material for temperance:   Let me use pains as material for endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that diversity is important. Period, ... Diversity overall, whether (involving) various ethnicities, out-of-state students, international students, religions, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that diversity is important. Period, ... Diversity overall, whether (involving) various ethnicities, out-of-state students, international students, religions, we know all of those students bring something unique to IU.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19508]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52547]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you. The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I should beg every Dog in the town to bite me. Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24140</guid></item></channel></rss>