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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19394]]></link><description><![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27416]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage;  Noble by heritage,   Generous and free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage;  Noble by heritage,   Generous and free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44540]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage?  Rhime us to reason? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage?  Rhime us to reason? and our lives redress   In metre, as Druids did the savages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approachyou than when you approach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21176]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approachyou than when you approach them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it waspromptly drummed out of us in first grade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it waspromptly drummed out of us in first grade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59969]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62320]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49030]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65093]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56373]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We demand democracy, security, stability and termination of occupation in Iraq to provide the grounds for its reconstruction and development, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41297]]></link><description><![CDATA[We demand democracy, security, stability and termination of occupation in Iraq to provide the grounds for its reconstruction and development,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally  By rammin' Scriptur' in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54915]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally  By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun,   An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do whatever needs to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41547]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do whatever needs to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60677]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58345]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame, And all the weary world to sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame, And all the weary world to sleep are gane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61742]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A banquet will be held for the kids at the Jewett Sportsmen Club in the evening so they can share ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A banquet will be held for the kids at the Jewett Sportsmen Club in the evening so they can share experiences. There will be someone to do the meat processing at a reduced cost. If they do not have use for the deer, it will donated to a local food pantry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alternative Terror War Tanks rolled over toJenin and its Refugee CampAs battlefields in a minuteClouds of black smokes belchedFrom the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alternative Terror War Tanks rolled over toJenin and its Refugee CampAs battlefields in a minuteClouds of black smokes belchedFrom the nozzle of the missilesTurned the dwellings into debrisAnd lives breathe under rubbleStill desires of livingThat will never be fulfilledSighing are heard in the airUnseen ghosts are roaming freelySearching their brotherhoodsLiving or deadSouls are still weeping bitterlyWith sorrows that never endIn the war turned atmosphereFlying high in the sky appeared The hungry vultures that smellOdors of rotten human flesh As if the open graveyardsTo wipe the terrors and even its ghostsOut of the worldly atmosphereReassuring pure peaceIn every people’s mindIs’t the rebirth of terror Or alternative terror ?© Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will act without harming civilians while waging war against the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40275]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will act without harming civilians while waging war against the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53893]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans round with many voices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a very nice (Grey Cup) ring; lots of diamonds, quality diamonds, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38881]]></link><description><![CDATA[a very nice (Grey Cup) ring; lots of diamonds, quality diamonds, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38881</guid></item></channel></rss>