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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Needle in a bottle of hay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Needle in a bottle of hay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case was brought by his family to justice and is handled by the judiciary, which is independent. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40045]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case was brought by his family to justice and is handled by the judiciary, which is independent. But the government of Afghanistan is still committed to the respect of human rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33929]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum of $1,000. Thirty-five bids later, it sold for $40,100.] Any time an item sells for 40 times its opening bid, you've got to give it the credit it deserves, ... This auction has gone a long way to establishing the standards for many collectibles that to this point did not have benchmarks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks  You teach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks  You teach me how a beggar should be answered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3935</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[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's not eligible for the bone marrow transplant until he finishes his chemo courses. [The doctors] have to wipe out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31236]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's not eligible for the bone marrow transplant until he finishes his chemo courses. [The doctors] have to wipe out the bad cells before they can introduce the good ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour  In field and woodland, and each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16261]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour  In field and woodland, and each punctual flower   Bows at the signal an obedient head    And hastens to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57500]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously we don't have a crystal ball... but I think with the relationships that we've established with local hospitals, first-responders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously we don't have a crystal ball... but I think with the relationships that we've established with local hospitals, first-responders and the Red Cross that we'll adapt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a farce. If they couldn't form a government till now, how will they lead a country? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28533]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a farce. If they couldn't form a government till now, how will they lead a country?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try out the animal before he bought him. He took theAss home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, uponwhich the new animal left all the others and at once joined theone that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to hisowner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could havemade a trial of him, he answered, I do not need a trial; I knowthat he will be just the same as the one he chose for hiscompanion. A man is known by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66270]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37732]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the rules have to be met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For use almost can change the stamp of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51268]]></link><description><![CDATA[For use almost can change the stamp of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38880]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different if he's taking snaps and his rheumatism is acting up, you know what I mean?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20107]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still hope that Poland will join this agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41588]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still hope that Poland will join this agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better, able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to bear of being born of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   While many Americans are still firmly committed to the traditional, supernatural conceptions of a personal God, a Divine Savior, and the promise of eternal life, the trend is away from these convictions. The fact is that a demythologized modernism is overwhelming the traditional Christ-centered, mystical faith. For the modern skeptics are not the apostates, village atheists, or political revolutionaries of old. The leaders of today's challenge to traditional beliefs are principally theologians -- those in whose care the church entrusts its sacred teachings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6723</guid></item></channel></rss>