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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56390]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou know'st, great son, The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,  That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou know'st, great son, The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,  That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit   Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name    Whose repetition will be dogged with curses,     Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,      But with his last attempt he wiped it out,       Destroyed his country; and his name remains        To th' ensuing age abhorred,' Speak to me son.         Thou hast affected the fine strains of honor,          To imitate the graces of the gods;           To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' th' air,            And yet to change thy sulphur with a bolt             That should rive an oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michelle is, without a doubt, one of the best all-around basketball players in the state right now. She is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michelle is, without a doubt, one of the best all-around basketball players in the state right now. She is the complete package. Any coach would kill to have her on the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth,  Is the tender fear of wrong,   That never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth,  Is the tender fear of wrong,   That never wrongeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58628]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is a bottomless pit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is a bottomless pit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way up and the way down are one and the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way up and the way down are one and the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41616]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54032]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see it as a trusted traveler program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see it as a trusted traveler program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God comes to the hungry in the form of food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21098]]></link><description><![CDATA[God comes to the hungry in the form of food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole idea of coming to Pakistan is very exciting on many levels. It's exciting because I know we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole idea of coming to Pakistan is very exciting on many levels. It's exciting because I know we are the first Western artists to come and play a big concert here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany must have her place in the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Germany must have her place in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Is it not plain that all spiritual apathy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Is it not plain that all spiritual apathy comes not from over-trust but from unbelief, either doubting that sin is present death, or else that holiness is life and that Jesus has a gift to bestow, not in heaven, but promptly, which is better to gain than all the world? Therefore salvation is linked with faith, which earns nothing but elicits all, like the touch that evokes electricity but which no man supposes to have made it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerate, change, or be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerate, change, or be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54579]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61175]]></link><description><![CDATA[A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17880]]></link><description><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors of cliffs lining deep gulches and winding streams. Some were mountainous; some lay in long, monotonous rows like, the basalt precipices hanging over desert canons. Such was the background of the wonderful, cruel, enchanting, bewildering, fatal, great city. But into this background were cut myriads of brilliant parallelograms and circles and squares through which glowed many colored lights. And out of the violet and purple depths ascended like the city's soul, sound and odors and thrills that make up the civic body. There arose the breath of gaiety unrestrained, of love, of hate, of all the passions that man can know. There below him lay all things, good or bad, that can be brought from the four corners of the earth to instruct, please, thrill, enrich, elevate, cast down, nurture or kill. Thus the flavor of it came up to him and went into his blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the depth and power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the depth and power which come from participation in eternal realities. But this new age cannot any more successfully live on religious faiths that are out of harmony with known truth, or that hang loose in the air, cut apart from the fundamental intellectual culture of the age. The hour has struck for the serious business of rediscovering the foundations, and of interpenetrating all life and thought with the truths and realities of a victorious religious faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,  Ut prisca gens mortalium,   Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,    Solutus omni faenore.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11185]]></link><description><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11717]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense  Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense  Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,   Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary    And pitch our evils there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The case is a prototype of the new post-Afghanistan network - a little bit of everything: native-born radicals, immigrants from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The case is a prototype of the new post-Afghanistan network - a little bit of everything: native-born radicals, immigrants from Morocco, travel to places like Saudi Arabia, connection to operations like Madrid. It's like handling a number of particles of mercury, toxic in themselves and even more toxic when they come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35845</guid></item></channel></rss>