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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Sean Burke in the last three or four years is a top five guy. When you watch his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Sean Burke in the last three or four years is a top five guy. When you watch his save percentage in the last four years, it's at the top of the NHL. His game is so good. He is such a good pure stopper of the puck. There is no doubt he is one of the top in the NHL right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23665]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/733]]></link><description><![CDATA[By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody complained. It was a smooth transition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody complained. It was a smooth transition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is pain in prohibition ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is pain in prohibition]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants. [Lat., Multa petentibus  Desunt multa; bene est cui deus obtulit   Parca quod satis est manu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41599]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1266]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis more brave To live, than to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4860]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis more brave To live, than to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61806]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer combination of nihilism and deification. Theoretically, man is said to be nothing but an animal with a highly developed cerebrum. At the same time, it is believed of this man that he is capable by science and technical devices of achieving whatever he wants. The deification which might have been thought to be finally overcome, returns as it were from behind, in the form of a deification of technical creativity to which not much less than omnipotence is ascribed. After mankind has done away with the pseudo-religion of race and blood, it is faced with the even greater danger of a technocratical pseudo-religion. There is no room for human personality, freedom and justice in either of these new religions of divine man. But the most dangerous of all must be the one which makes man at the same time nothing and God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15721]]></link><description><![CDATA[All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our message is, no matter what side of the issue your are on, get out there and vote. We want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our message is, no matter what side of the issue your are on, get out there and vote. We want a clear message. Absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42796]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,   Behold this gate of pearl and gold!   - William Blake,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ROME The following abridged paraphrase of the Epistle to the Romans aims at presenting in a plain way the continuous sequence of the argument, while suggesting the free epistolary form of the original: My DEAR FELLOW-CHRISTIANS OF ROME,  Wherever I go I hear of your faith, and I thank God for it. It is a part of my daily prayers that I may be permitted to visit you. I believe such a visit would do you good, and I am sure it would do me good. In fact, I have tried again and again to get to Rome, but hitherto something has always turned up to prevent me. I shall not feel that my work as missionary to the Gentiles is complete until I have preached in Rome. My mission is a universal one, knowing no bounds of race or culture--naturally, since my message is a universal one. It is a message of God's righteousness, revealed to men on a basis of faith. (Rom. 1:1-17)  Apart from this, there is nothing to be seen in the world of today but the Nemesis of sin. Take the pagan world: all men have a knowledge of God by natural religion; but the pagan world has deliberately turned its back upon this knowledge, and, for all its boasted philosophy, has degraded religion into idolatry. The natural consequence is a moral perversity horrible to contemplate. (Rom. 1:18-32)  But you, my Jewish friend, need not dwell with complacency upon the sins of the pagan world. You are guilty yourself. Do not mistake God's patience with His people for indulgence. His judgments are impartial. Knowledge or ignorance of the Law of Moses makes no difference here. The pagans have God's law written in their conscience. If they obey it, well; if not, they stand condemned. And as for you--you call yourself a Jew and pride yourself on the Law. But have you kept all its precepts? You are circumcised and so forth: that goes for nothing; God looks at the inner life of motive and affection. An honest pagan is better than a bad Jew in His sight. I do not mean to say there is no advantage in being a Jew: of this more presently ; but read your Bible and take to yourself the hard words of the prophets--spoken, remember, not to heathens, but to people who knew the Law, just as you do. No, Jew and pagan, we are in the same case. No one can stand right before God on the basis of what he has actually done. Law only serves to bring consciousness of guilt. (Rom. 2:1-3:20)  But now, Law apart, we have a revelation of God's righteousness, as I was saying (Rom. 1:17). It comes by faith, the faith of Jesus Christ; and it comes to every one, Jew or Gentile, who has faith. We have all sinned, and all of us can be made to stand right with God. That is a free gift to us, due to His graciousness. We are emancipated in Christ Jesus, who is God's appointed means of dealing with sin--a means operating by the devotion of His life, and by faith on our part. It is thus that God, having passed over sins committed in the old days when He held His hand, demonstrates His righteousness in the world of to-day; i.e., it is thus that He both shows Himself righteous, and makes those stand right before Him who have faith in Jesus Christ. No room for boasting here! No distinction of Jew and Gentile here! (Rom. 3:21-31)  But what about Abraham? you will say. Did not he win God's graciousness by what he did? Not at all. Read your Bible, and you will find that the promise was given to him before he was circumcised; and the Bible expressly says that "he had faith in God, and that counted for righteousness." The same principle applies to us all. (Rom. 4:1-25)  To return to the point, then, we stand right with God on the ground of faith, and we are at peace with Him, come what may. God's love floods our whole being--a love shown in the fact that Christ died for us, not because we were good people for whom anyone might die, but actually while we were sinners. He died, not for His friends, but for His enemies. Very well then, if while we were enemies Christ died for us, surely He will save us now that we are friends! If He reconciled us to God by dying for us, surely He will save us by living for us, and in us. There is something to boast about! (Rom. 5:1-11)  Christ died and lives for us all, I say. But, you ask, how can the life and death of one individual have consequences for so many? You believe that we all suffer for Adam's sin; and if so, why should we not all profit by Christ's righteousness? Of course there is really no comparison between the power of evil to propagate itself, and the power of good to win the victory, for that is a matter of God's graciousness. However, you see my point : one man sinned--a whole race suffers for it; one Man lived righteously--a whole race wins life by it. But what about Law? you say. Law only came in by the way, to intensify the consciousness of guilt. (Rom. 5:12-21) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, reallybelieve, your mind will find the ways to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, reallybelieve, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution pavesthe way to solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a huge bump up for us. The addition of 'Dr. Phil' has provided a strong platform and lead-in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38063]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a huge bump up for us. The addition of 'Dr. Phil' has provided a strong platform and lead-in to our newscast. Most importantly, people are staying with our news. We have literally done a 180 on 'MAQ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no substitute for playing the game. You can do all the drills you want . . . you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38022]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no substitute for playing the game. You can do all the drills you want . . . you have to teach them technique but you have to put them in situations where they must use that technique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13986]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you can't make that big play, get that turnover every time. We've got to do some basic things, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30521]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you can't make that big play, get that turnover every time. We've got to do some basic things, some good, overall football things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smaller the head, the bigger the dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest concern among employers is figuring out how they'll know if you're productive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest concern among employers is figuring out how they'll know if you're productive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to win the district tournament. We want to put a trophy in our case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to win the district tournament. We want to put a trophy in our case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found out this... emblematical use of sleep, that it should be a representation of death, God, who wrought and perfected his work, before Nature began, (for Nature was but his Apprentice, to learn in the first seven days, and now is his foreman, and works next under him) God, I say, intended sleep only for the refreshing of man by bodily rest, and not for a figure of death, for he intended not death itself then. But Man having induced death upon himself, God hath taken Man's Creature, death, into his hand, and mended it, and whereas it hath in itself a fearfull form and aspect, so that Man is afraid of his own Creature, God presents it to him, in a familiar, in an assiduous, in an agreeable and acceptable form, in sleep, that so when he awakes from sleep and says to himself, shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now, when I was asleep, he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his Melancholique fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep. As then we need sleep to live out our threescore and ten years, so we need death, to live that life which we cannot out-live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12538]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56112]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37555]]></link><description><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired me in writing 'Panic,' it was 'North by Northwest,' ... Those are my favorite Hitchcock films -- the ones where ordinary, everyday people are going about their lives, and they take this dramatic left turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light,  Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light,  Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind,   Sweeping the sea floors white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16736</guid></item></channel></rss>