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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through  The growing waters; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through  The growing waters; it unmans one quite,   Especially when life is rather new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55093]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be ‘identical with themselves’, the old dictum that ‘everything is identical with itself’ becomes in [today’s understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on the two triple Axels. I'd give myself 95 out of 100 for today's skate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Gunn) is definitely one of the Bay Area's best. He does it all -- dribble, shoot and defend. He makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35020]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Gunn) is definitely one of the Bay Area's best. He does it all -- dribble, shoot and defend. He makes shots when we need them most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12072]]></link><description><![CDATA[They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63753]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. Just as a flaming fire reduces wood toashes Argina, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62306]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I plan on being a sponge all year and see how quickly we can adapt. I can't imagine doing this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I plan on being a sponge all year and see how quickly we can adapt. I can't imagine doing this from Nazareth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21653]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,    And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,     Trembled but dimpled not for joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fighting Cocks and the EagleTwo game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fighting Cocks and the EagleTwo game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons. The vanquished Cock immediately came out of his corner, and ruled henceforth with undisputed mastery. Pride goes before destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After that first goal, they came pretty quick. We just had some trouble getting going, but once we did, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30554]]></link><description><![CDATA[After that first goal, they came pretty quick. We just had some trouble getting going, but once we did, we played well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False face must hide what the false heart doth know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64688]]></link><description><![CDATA[False face must hide what the false heart doth know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61469]]></link><description><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus, she gets the flexibility so she can spend time with the kids when things aren't going on, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus, she gets the flexibility so she can spend time with the kids when things aren't going on,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Traveler and His DogA Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Traveler and His DogA Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stretching himself. He asked him sharply: Why do you stand there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so come with me instantly. The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: O, master! I am quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting. The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1443]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51998]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything and I think we get discouraged and didn't play as hard on defense. That's a heart issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35940]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28390]]></link><description><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28390</guid></item></channel></rss>