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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The administration will aggressively fight the war on terror in an effort to protect the American people while at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The administration will aggressively fight the war on terror in an effort to protect the American people while at the same time upholding the civil liberties of the American people. The president is doing both of these things and will continue to do both of these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50279]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41684]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In India there are a large proportion of people who have not seen significant change in their lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31478]]></link><description><![CDATA[In India there are a large proportion of people who have not seen significant change in their lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:  As, painfully to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:  As, painfully to pore upon a book,   To seek the light of truth, which truth the while    Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.   The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu   You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. •Mumon  Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. •Zen Saying  No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. •Tilopa   When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. •Ying-An   There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. •Yuan-Wu  The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. •Robert M. Pirsig  Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. •Zen Proverb  Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56186]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49132]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there is relatively little old growth left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think this is a very good approach to test our tools and quickly deploy resources in the event of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32917]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think this is a very good approach to test our tools and quickly deploy resources in the event of a situation or a threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared is half the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9894]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared is half the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13263]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as you're not wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5691]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46293]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dynamic week celebrates small business owners' accomplishments, but also encourages these winners to continue their growth. You embody self-reliance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28543]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dynamic week celebrates small business owners' accomplishments, but also encourages these winners to continue their growth. You embody self-reliance, perseverance, hard work and optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60455]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The middle class is becoming the working poor. If they have one tragic event -- illness, lost job or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33381]]></link><description><![CDATA[The middle class is becoming the working poor. If they have one tragic event -- illness, lost job or a death -- they have need for the food bank.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take no note of time But from its loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51867]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take no note of time But from its loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13354]]></link><description><![CDATA[An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   To pious and peaceable persons [Augustine] gives this advice: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   To pious and peaceable persons [Augustine] gives this advice: that they should correct in mercy whatever they can; that what they cannot, they should patiently bear, and affectionately lament, till God either reform and correct it, or, at the harvest, root up the tares and sift out the chaff. All pious persons should study to fortify themselves with these counsels, lest, while they consider themselves as valiant and strenuous defenders of righteousness, they depart from the Kingdom of Heaven, which is the only Kingdom of righteousness. For since it is the will of God that the communion of his church should be maintained in this external society, those who, from an aversion of wicked men, destroy the token of that society, enter on a course in which they are in great danger of falling from the communion of the saints.   .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But where are the snows of yester year? [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56721]]></link><description><![CDATA[But where are the snows of yester year? [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel! I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51416]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel! I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. -Kim Lyons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of guys have been here for a while and we haven't done anything. Coach Collier said he's tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30258]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of guys have been here for a while and we haven't done anything. Coach Collier said he's tired of waiting and we're tired, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -Buddha. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22814]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces   By plucking bon-mots from their places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46649</guid></item></channel></rss>