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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, at the pinch, at the decisive moment, we don't want it to work or ourselves to be lifted up above the failings and disloyalties we find so alluring, but rather to be enabled to continue them without the ugly consequences of so doing, to have the inexorable laws of life bent aside in our favour, so that we can squeeze through and escape, without reaping what we have sown; because, as we misunderstand it, the whole point of the good news our Lord brings is the (to us) gladsome announcement that God is happily much more morally indifferent than our consciences had thought, and is not going to make a fuss about our sins and such-like trivial peccadilloes, but will surely let us off -- because, in fact, we have not grasped that the core and essence of the Gospel... is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would toy and woo,    He would chirp and flatter me,     He would hang the wing awhile,      Till at length he saw me smile,       Lord! how sullen he would be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58954]]></link><description><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The annual Congress is also an opportunity to renew the friendship that we, ACI members worldwide, have built through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The annual Congress is also an opportunity to renew the friendship that we, ACI members worldwide, have built through the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â there was a stream of blood going down the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â there was a stream of blood going down the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42765]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel!  She, like thee, was forced to bear  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel!  She, like thee, was forced to bear   All reflections, foul or fair.    Thou art deep and bright within,     Depths as bright belong'd to Gwynne;      Thou art very frail as well,       Frail as flesh is,--so was Nell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4726</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><item><title><![CDATA[Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;  But if for any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;  But if for any wish thou darest not pray,   Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reticence is a great gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reticence is a great gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is no adversity, he can be a very positive person in the unit. (When there's adversity or trouble), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36304]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is no adversity, he can be a very positive person in the unit. (When there's adversity or trouble), we see a different side. There is a duality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice never rules forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice never rules forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My last day here in Hampton is October 4, ... I will then take time for a deep breath, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39483]]></link><description><![CDATA[My last day here in Hampton is October 4, ... I will then take time for a deep breath, and then send everything to the cleaners and start again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice is the vice of declining years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice is the vice of declining years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16443]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52369</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[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57915]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John,  Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made   In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/205]]></link><description><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the turkey's point of view.Sunday dinner isn't sunnyEaster feasts are just bad luckWhen you see it from the viewpointOf a chicken or a duck.Oh how I once loved tuna saladPork and lobsters, lamb chops tooTill I stopped and looked at dinnerFrom the dinner's point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;  A smile within his eyelids plays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4369]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;  A smile within his eyelids plays   And into words his longing gushes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14808]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. . -Sharon Salzberg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception of the Church which we tend to reproduce as the fruit of our missionary work is so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception of the Church which we tend to reproduce as the fruit of our missionary work is so much a replica of our own, so much that of a fundamentally settled body existing for the sake of its own members rather than that of a body of strangers and pilgrims, the sign and instrument of a supernatural and universal salvation to be revealed, that our missionary advance tends to follow the lines of cultural and political expansion. and to falter when that advance stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same thing is happening on the barrier islands, like Longboat Key and Anna Maria, when you have a red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same thing is happening on the barrier islands, like Longboat Key and Anna Maria, when you have a red tide in the area, ... But the data is not at a fine enough resolution to tease out the economic impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A full mind is an empty bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3750]]></link><description><![CDATA[A full mind is an empty bat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16594</guid></item></channel></rss>