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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Garden is a Friend You Can Visit Anytime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Garden is a Friend You Can Visit Anytime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still experimenting with a little bit of the chemistry on the field, working in some of the sophomores ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39285]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still experimenting with a little bit of the chemistry on the field, working in some of the sophomores to see who will work with whom. When we were losing those points, they got a couple of fast breaks, and our defense just wasn't crashing in fast enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid us defiance,   Old questions of Why and of Whence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 Rejoice in God, O ye tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 Rejoice in God, O ye tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every creature, in which is the breath of Life. Let man and beast appear before him, and magnify his name together. Let Noah and his company approach the throne of Grace, and do homage to the Ark of their Salvation. Let Abraham present a Ram, and worship the God of his Redemption. Let Jacob with his speckled Drove adore the good Shepherd of Israel. ... Let Daniel come forth with a Lion, and praise God with all his might, through faith in Christ Jesus. ... Let David bless with the bear --  The beginning of victory to the Lord --  to the Lord the perfection of excellence --  Hallelujah from the heart of God, and from the hand of the artist inimitable, and from the echo of the heavenly harp in sweetness magnifical and mighty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59429]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not be surprised if a private equity group ended up buying Knight Ridder, and then took their time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be surprised if a private equity group ended up buying Knight Ridder, and then took their time and sold off the assets to strategic buyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62494]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25856]]></link><description><![CDATA[from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12934]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2761]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the best,   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pretty scared. I tried to disguise it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pretty scared. I tried to disguise it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1722]]></link><description><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without death and decay, how could life go on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without death and decay, how could life go on?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The move shows confidence by the leadership that we are not guilty and don't fear anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The move shows confidence by the leadership that we are not guilty and don't fear anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mumble a lot off-stage, I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend and I say something, he won't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mumble a lot off-stage, I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend and I say something, he won't hear me, he'll say 'What?'. So I'll say it again, but once again he doesn't hear me, so he says 'What?'. But really it's just some insignificant sh*t that I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, 'That tree is far away.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -Tennessee Williams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave's the market place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18198]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave's the market place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were identified as being a danger to Greenway users. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40583]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were identified as being a danger to Greenway users.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is only one letter short of danger ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is only one letter short of danger]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14651]]></link><description><![CDATA[To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.  But fear, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.  But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind,   And horrow heavy sat on every mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36593]]></link><description><![CDATA[These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who has reached the age of 18 by Sept. 15 is eligible to play in our league if he is appropriately under contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a huge agenda for Blair. But in an hour-long meeting, Africa and global warming will take no more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36130]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a huge agenda for Blair. But in an hour-long meeting, Africa and global warming will take no more than 10 minutes each. Those are showpiece elements to Blair's leadership but not the most important issues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26775]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His proposals just aren't that popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33405]]></link><description><![CDATA[His proposals just aren't that popular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932  Any such distinction between disreputable and respectable sins... Jesus Christ absolutely refuses to allow. In His eyes avarice, pride, refusal to forgive, hypocrisy, are at least as bad as fornication or adultery or violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2543]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.   ... Simone Weil  August 18, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.   ... Simone Weil  August 18, 2000   My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is very much alive and speaking to us through all things.  ... C. J. Briejèr, letter to Rachel Carson August 19, 2000   The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, studying the Bible and perhaps celebrating the Lord's supper as an entity on its own, comes very much closer to Independency as Robert Browne saw it than the unholy isolationism of a prosperous suburban church, with 200 members who scarcely know each other by sight. If a sizable proportion of the Free Church ministry were enabled to become itinerant once again -- not necessarily itinerant in the geographical sense, but itinerant in the complex mazes of contemporary society, fathers in God to Christian organisms evolved by the lay men and women who spend their lives in these mazes -- new heart would be put into both ministry and laity, and incidentally, new impetus given to the search for Christian unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have completed the regulatory approval process in just 10 months from the date the transaction was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have completed the regulatory approval process in just 10 months from the date the transaction was announced May 24, 2005. We appreciate the thorough and efficient review of the transaction by regulatory officials and parties to the proceedings in each state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to color everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mold, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7186</guid></item></channel></rss>