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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership does not depend on being right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership does not depend on being right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know it has never left port.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31082]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You reach a point where you don't work for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64820]]></link><description><![CDATA[You reach a point where you don't work for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66564]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's for a great cause, making fools of ourselves. Anything for the kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's for a great cause, making fools of ourselves. Anything for the kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the distress   Of ladies who cannot have their own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little bit of vegetation is good but too much is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33556]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little bit of vegetation is good but too much is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Homestead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Homestead Grays bridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My bottom line is that if the U.S. government just stands on the autopilot, just on the current trim line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35956]]></link><description><![CDATA[My bottom line is that if the U.S. government just stands on the autopilot, just on the current trim line ... I think that it is more likely than not that we will see a nuclear bomb exploding in one of our cities in less than a decade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44339]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19225]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest Day hath an Eueninge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest Day hath an Eueninge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just crashed down and I didn't know how to get help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35415]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just crashed down and I didn't know how to get help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2458]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  It is quite possible to perform very ordinary actions with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  It is quite possible to perform very ordinary actions with so high an intention as to serve God therein better than in far more important things done with a less pure intention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58423]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The dangers of the seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61478]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56425]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61427]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,    Santa Claus de la Muscavado,     Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!      His was the rental of half Havana       And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,        Rich as he was, could hardly hold         A candle to light the mines of gold          Our Cuban owned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51617]]></link><description><![CDATA[It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me?  What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62340]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me?  What can mine own praise to mine own self bring,   And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20443]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are too many people in the world who are claiming they are defending the president without the family's knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are too many people in the world who are claiming they are defending the president without the family's knowledge and we don't know who authorized them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28221</guid></item></channel></rss>