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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. Pray save me, Master, he said, and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane.  The Farmer laughed aloud and said, It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company. Birds of a feather flock together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17083]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham bowers, and for their Pope implore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really disappointed in our blocking out in the first half. We gave up 14 offensive rebounds in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really disappointed in our blocking out in the first half. We gave up 14 offensive rebounds in the first half. I thought our kids played a lot better in the second. We really battled through the kids' sickness throughout the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38759]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popular image, ever strays from sobriety is a beneficent smile. Satan sniggers with fiendish scorn at God, who sits in his ivory tower emitting nary a chuckle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with - for you are a caretaker for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5981]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. Doc Childre, A Parenting Manual: Heart Hope for the Family -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55508]]></link><description><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stir not dying embers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stir not dying embers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5160]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushing is the colour of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushing is the colour of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are the creative acts of intelligence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are the creative acts of intelligence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44929]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18730]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often described as fear, which is something quite different and far deeper than alarm. It was that sense which, without irreverence, I have thought to find expressed by the great evangelists when they speak of the fear of God. One does not fear God because He is terrible, but because He is literally the soul of goodness and truth, because to do Him wrong is to do wrong to some mysterious part of oneself, and one does not know exactly what the consequences may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27113]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a nice job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a nice job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11213]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63921]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is it men or women who committhe most rapes?Is it men or women whovote for the most executions?Is it men or women who promotewar, vote for war, kill in war?Is it men or women who as'talk show hosts' allow no talk?Is it men or women whoare more often pedophiles?Is it men or women who torturelab animals more?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell? -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65999]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more reason, the less government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more reason, the less government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24</guid></item></channel></rss>