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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is art but a way of seeing?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3271]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is art but a way of seeing?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, quam fortes milites bellis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25324]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funerals are all abstract ceremony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Funerals are all abstract ceremony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54880]]></link><description><![CDATA[As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great acts are made up of small deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great acts are made up of small deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didn't make no money today, but I'll just go to the next one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didn't make no money today, but I'll just go to the next one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37528]]></link><description><![CDATA[an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have to include the Boeing- Airbus dispute - which, given its complexity, should be settled through negotiations anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never takechances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never takechances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to put all the information on the Web site. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40459]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to put all the information on the Web site.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966]]></link><description><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was nothing more than the con working the kid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40646]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was nothing more than the con working the kid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55076]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13011]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a unique moment for Afghanistan. The whole situation has changed inside Afghanistan, in the region and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a unique moment for Afghanistan. The whole situation has changed inside Afghanistan, in the region and in the international community,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret isan appalling waste of energy; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret isan appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good forwallowing in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11216]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a leaf moved. Everything was gray. All the houses were the same one color. There were no squirrels, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a leaf moved. Everything was gray. All the houses were the same one color. There were no squirrels, no birds. If you saw something move, it was either a dog or a cat. They clung onto trees. We would bark like dogs and the dogs would bark back at us. I took a speakerphone to amplify my voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7015]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt nature, is against faith to God by Christ; so the next great opposition made against us, is against our love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are too sarcastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50832]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are too sarcastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have three plays and out or allow penalties to get us backed up. New Philadelphia is too good of a football team for us to do that. We need to be able to hold it and move it and we really have to put it in the end zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (John 11:25).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49540]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directly on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28957]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directly on the Internet will mean for the book publishing industry have been vastly overstated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to have to relive it all over again. But I'll do that if it means he will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29199]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to have to relive it all over again. But I'll do that if it means he will be held accountable for what he did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-being of America's children is probably better than it ever has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being of America's children is probably better than it ever has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34095</guid></item></channel></rss>