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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Even the most traditional theologian will be anxious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Even the most traditional theologian will be anxious to point out that the classical images which have been used, with more or less success, to depict different aspects of the Redemption -- the winning of a battle, the liberation of captives, the payment of a fine or debt, the curing of a disease, and so on -- are not to be interpreted literally, any more than, when we say that the eternal Word "came down from Heaven", we are describing a process of spatial translation. For here we are dealing with processes and events which, by the nature of the case, cannot be precisely described in everyday language...  The matter is quite different with such a statement as that Christ was born of the Virgin Mary; for, whatever aspects of the Incarnation outstrip the descriptive power of ordinary language, this at least is plainly statable in it. It means that Jesus was conceived in his mother's womb without previous sexual intercourse on her part with any male human being, and this is a straightforward statement which is either true or false. To say that the birth... of Jesus Christ cannot simply be thought of as a biological event, and to add that this is [not] what the Virgin Birth means, is a plain misuse of language; and no amount of talk about the appealing character of the "Christmas myth" can validly gloss this over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/911]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3700]]></link><description><![CDATA[More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prediction is difficult, especially about the future..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51174]]></link><description><![CDATA[No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  There is a covenant, ... and God is faithful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  There is a covenant, ... and God is faithful to His covenant. But the substance of that covenant is all pure mercy and grace. If men presume to claim for themselves, upon the basis of the covenant, some relationship with God other than that of the sinner needing God's grace, the covenant has been perverted. And when that has happened, God, in the sovereign freedom of His grace, destroy these pretensions, calls "No people" to be His people, breaks off natural branches and grafts in wild slips, filling them with the life that is His own life imparted to man. There is no law in His Kingdom save the law of pure grace. That is why they come from east and west to sit down with Abraham and Isaac, while the sons of the Kingdom are cast out; for the sons of the Kingdom have no place there unless they are willing to sit down with all whom the Lord of the feast shall call, and to receive His mercy in exactly the same way as the publicans and sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a set of lies agreed upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19308]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a set of lies agreed upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've already started to look into safety at the port. We're talking to people over there to see if they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31772]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've already started to look into safety at the port. We're talking to people over there to see if they have everything they need from a security perspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones   Who win in the lifelong race.    And each forgets that his youth has fled,     Forgets that his prime is past,      Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,       In the glare of the truth at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47032]]></link><description><![CDATA[A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32773]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including national park and national forest land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne,  Some day hidden Truth be known; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne,  Some day hidden Truth be known;   Some day--some sweet day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57020]]></link><description><![CDATA[General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15608]]></link><description><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to help them in any way we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to help them in any way we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only after disaster can we be ressurected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only after disaster can we be ressurected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22315]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a confident guy, but I think that everybody on this team is confident. If we don't make predictions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34531]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a confident guy, but I think that everybody on this team is confident. If we don't make predictions like him, it doesn't mean we don't have confidence. Everybody's different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63442]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60163]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11111]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since 9/11, nothing has been done to secure our borders and do the job the Congress won't do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since 9/11, nothing has been done to secure our borders and do the job the Congress won't do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55444]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16643]]></link><description><![CDATA[All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16643</guid></item></channel></rss>