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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/651]]></link><description><![CDATA[My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is friendship set on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is friendship set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15979]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46260]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61313]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far lessthan the long-range risks and costs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21145]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far lessthan the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30926]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, you don't have much choice but to move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61033]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill fortune seldom comes alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill fortune seldom comes alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[they are always tough here and have been known to pull out some tricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30345]]></link><description><![CDATA[they are always tough here and have been known to pull out some tricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough, And gay with gilded wings,  Perchance the patron of his vow,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough, And gay with gilded wings,  Perchance the patron of his vow,   Some artless linnet sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65359]]></link><description><![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope we can plug into your efforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope we can plug into your efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But nothing has been decided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33293]]></link><description><![CDATA[But nothing has been decided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46158]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17980]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65882]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river, Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river, Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60988]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45194]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54790]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words may lie,but actions will always tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words may lie,but actions will always tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5727</guid></item></channel></rss>