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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8950]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two phenomena, in my view, are particularly disturbing: One is the prevalence of the use of torture to extract confessions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two phenomena, in my view, are particularly disturbing: One is the prevalence of the use of torture to extract confessions and information and the second one is the intimidation of those who make complaints against public officials. In my opinion, there is no doubt that these phenomena are more than allegations, but have in fact considerable basis in reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62068]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled hearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3406]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer is mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong. And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25394]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31518]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and let the defense do the work for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not change, we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not change, we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.  Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,   That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Few have defined what free will is, although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Few have defined what free will is, although it repeatedly occurs in the writings of all. Origen seems to have put forward a definition generally agreed upon among ecclesiastical writers when he said that it is a faculty of the reason to distinguish between good and evil, a faculty of the will to choose one or the other. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1939]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59579]]></link><description><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65204]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sancta Maria ad Nives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sancta Maria ad Nives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  Whoever loves much, does much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  Whoever loves much, does much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30227]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53639]]></link><description><![CDATA[And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12618]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52008]]></link><description><![CDATA[...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   The cause of their decline was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   The cause of their decline was not, as has been supposed, because there is no more need for [the charismatic gifts], "because all the world had become Christian". ... The real cause was: the love of many, of almost all Christians so called, was waxed cold; ... The real cause why the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit were no longer to be found in the Christian Church [was that] the Christians were turned heathen again, and had only a dead form left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it    Then, if you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was glad she was done hitting me, but I didn't want her to hit anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was glad she was done hitting me, but I didn't want her to hit anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even these are not properly done by hirelings --; it consists also in feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, covering the naked, receiving guests, visiting the sick and those in prison. By the doing of these things is the people to be instructed in the holy duties of an active life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6760</guid></item></channel></rss>