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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Not even the gods can withstand necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not even the gods can withstand necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the luckier you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the luckier you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a madhouse, ... if you wait until voting day, then you've got the long lines and you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a madhouse, ... if you wait until voting day, then you've got the long lines and you get tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this methodof searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consistssolely in moving toward self-sufficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't prepared, we didn't have the background information [and] we didn't have the collateral information. In many cases, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32423]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't prepared, we didn't have the background information [and] we didn't have the collateral information. In many cases, you can do more damage than good if you don't do your homework.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 'C' effort at best. We didn't play well at all. We had some good stats and Justin ran the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38272]]></link><description><![CDATA[A 'C' effort at best. We didn't play well at all. We had some good stats and Justin ran the ball amazingly, but we're a lot better than we showed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue;  Save the green holly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue;  Save the green holly with its berries red,   And the green moss that o'er the gravel spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got in early, but that's not a factor. We just worried about today's game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35254]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got in early, but that's not a factor. We just worried about today's game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28073]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've forced the other team to hit to beat us. We've forced them to put the ball in play and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've forced the other team to hit to beat us. We've forced them to put the ball in play and we've made the plays behind them -- and that's something we didn't do last year. We didn't play good defense behind our pitching and we walked too many guys and we've cleaned up those areas. It's really been a difference for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11923]]></link><description><![CDATA[No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower.   A shepherdess pass'd by that way--    Light footed, pretty and so gay;     That way she came,      Softly warbling forth her lay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27231]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17836]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30027]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone else, you judge anyone else, then you're a racist or you're a religious zealot, or you're not open-minded. So I think that people my age have been forced to be too accepting and too open-minded, whereas older people are sometimes narrow- minded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stone in a well is not lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stone in a well is not lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam was a development project. He had never raced before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam was a development project. He had never raced before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great, great run. They gave it everything they had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great, great run. They gave it everything they had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station;  "United we stand--divided we fall!"  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16145]]></link><description><![CDATA["A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station;  "United we stand--divided we fall!"   It made and preserves us a nation!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so lost for you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18129]]></link><description><![CDATA[At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evening words are not like to morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evening words are not like to morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45771</guid></item></channel></rss>