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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lanscape shapes culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lanscape shapes culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35809]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the governor expressed his concern that the local officials representing so many citizens were so stridently opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31897]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the governor expressed his concern that the local officials representing so many citizens were so stridently opposed to the proposal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13032]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din;  Whatever creed be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din;  Whatever creed be taught or land be trod,   Man's conscience is the oracle of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53887]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring,  Met we on hill, in dale, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58274]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring,  Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,   By paved fountain or by rushy brook,    Or in the beached margent of the sea,     To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,      But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeble dart short of its mark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51778]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeble dart short of its mark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you can't hardly understand him. But he definitely knows what's going on. That's for sure. He sees everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that they will get what they have sought. Accordingly we must note the general forms by which no one from first to last (as people say) is excluded, provided sincerity of heart, dissatisfaction with ourselves, humility, and faith are present in order that our hypocrisy may not profane God's name by calling upon him deceitfully. Our most gracious Father will not cast out those whom he not only urges, but stirs up with every possible means, to come to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. Would I not be a criminal if, notwithstanding this view, I should provide for progeny, i.e. for unfortunates? [Ger., Ich verachte die Menschheit in allen ihren Schichten; ich sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglucklicher sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sunder sein, wenn ich trotz dieser Ansicht fur Nachkommen, d.h. fur Ungluckliche sorgte?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity is what Jesus taught and lived and died for, then nothing can be truly the Gospel which lays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6577]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity is what Jesus taught and lived and died for, then nothing can be truly the Gospel which lays less stress than he did upon every human being's need of forgiveness by God, and upon our human need to be perpetually forgiving each other. Sooner or later, the modern adult man, like all other men everywhere, must come to know his need to be forgiven, and that by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kindest man, The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kindest man, The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40114]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing in a band with R.L. So I just called and said, 'What if I just moved to Kansas City?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indonesia's trials for crimes in East Timor speak for themselves: The process was a sham. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indonesia's trials for crimes in East Timor speak for themselves: The process was a sham.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cook dominated. She didn't make any mistakes, and if she did, they didn't find them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cook dominated. She didn't make any mistakes, and if she did, they didn't find them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are not all quite definite yet because the Kangaroos play on Sunday and they just had their last training ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are not all quite definite yet because the Kangaroos play on Sunday and they just had their last training session, so we'll wait until we see how our blokes pull up tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22154]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;   Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,    But an eternal now shall ever last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9255]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. - "Usenet posting in talk.politics.guns".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never eat anything white.. white flour, white milk,white cream, eggwhites, white sugar, white potatoes etc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never eat anything white.. white flour, white milk,white cream, eggwhites, white sugar, white potatoes etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63563</guid></item></channel></rss>