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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've seen dip buying and think that's a precursor to larger commitment into supply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've seen dip buying and think that's a precursor to larger commitment into supply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn March 16, 2000 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56637]]></link><description><![CDATA[To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with peace propaganda is that when it is permitted it isn't necessary, and when it's necessary it isn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with peace propaganda is that when it is permitted it isn't necessary, and when it's necessary it isn't permitted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to take care of the games against Dallas. These games against Dallas are going to be big swings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31572]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to take care of the games against Dallas. These games against Dallas are going to be big swings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53469]]></link><description><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But twenty times I rather would be   An atheist clean,    Than under gospel colours hid be,     Just for a screen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the great thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/633]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the great thing to see is that God has accepted Christ. He took our sins upon Himself, died to make propitiation (the sacrifice which removed the anger of God) for them. But God raised Him from the dead and has taken Him up to glory. God has accepted Christ in token of His perfect satisfaction in His work. Believing this, the soul enters into peace. I simply rest in God’s thoughts about His son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46925]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between leading indicators and subdued inflation expectations, it's really set a nice backdrop for the market today, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between leading indicators and subdued inflation expectations, it's really set a nice backdrop for the market today,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. Thou art wise when thou art poor, without desire of this world, and despisest thyself for the love of Jesus Christ; and expendeth all thy wit and all thy might in His service. Whoso will love wisely, it behoves him to love lasting things lastingly, and passing things passingly; so that his heart be set and fastened on nothing but in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is the grave of letters ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is the grave of letters]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s..., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s...,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46997]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big enough presence and have enough people, maybe the General Assembly will listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, ... Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll also have people on the Mon-Fayette Expressway (Route 43) to make sure people make the correct turns. Our main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll also have people on the Mon-Fayette Expressway (Route 43) to make sure people make the correct turns. Our main objective is to keep traffic moving efficiently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55231]]></link><description><![CDATA[All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted because he was so remarkable in that movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a small segment complaining on their own. I spoke with a lot of Hispanic people about what's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29097]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a small segment complaining on their own. I spoke with a lot of Hispanic people about what's going on. They want their kids integrated. They want them to learn more English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we would like a presence for the block party we have planned for April 22, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32388]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we would like a presence for the block party we have planned for April 22,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2897]]></link><description><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16986]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tehran is very expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tehran is very expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23320</guid></item></channel></rss>