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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They succeed, because they think they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51832]]></link><description><![CDATA[They succeed, because they think they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well,  And never have failed in your fragrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well,  And never have failed in your fragrance sweet   To find some secret spell,--    A charm that has bound me with witching power,     For mine is the old belief,      That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,       There's a soul in every leaf!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,  "There is a God," thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,  "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well:   In that thou sayest all. To Be is more    Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought,     Or reigned, or rested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5747]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and study group -- people talking about what they know they should be doing. In a subtle way, talking about something becomes an excuse for not doing it. This new bolt-hole of the conference and study group is not confined to the local congregation. It is a painful fact of life in the central structures of the churches. We have a welter of reports, commissions, surveys, liaison bodies, and so on. They have the appearance of progressive thinking and readiness to face change, combined with the function of being delaying devices. They are the sacraments of current Christianity, and its dilemma. Outreach is a move from power structures to meekness structures, and, in spite of the fact that Christians believe that it is the meek who shall inherit the earth, they show (as in the ecumenical movement) a distinct reluctance to relinquish power-structure thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52583]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN MYLEATHER JACKET,JEANS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTSGOODBYE]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best economic development strategy for the next few years lies in fostering entrepreneurs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best economic development strategy for the next few years lies in fostering entrepreneurs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17084]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49076]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/493]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost... but in a good way. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost... but in a good way. Like I'm at a carnival in a dream. Not sure that makes sense, but I do have pretty good pitch recognition. I see colors for different key signatures, notes, etc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1695]]></link><description><![CDATA["Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the people,Oh Lord" I said, "the earth below and the sky overheadand the dead that I once knew?""That was a dream," God smiledand said: "The dream that seemed tobe true; there were no peopleliving or dead; there was no earth, and no sky overhead,there was only myself in you.""Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,"meeting you here in this way?For I have sinned, I know full welland is there heaven and is there hell,and is this Judgement Day?""Nay, those were but dreams" the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to be.There are no such things as fear and sin;there is no you . . . you never have been.There is nothing at all but me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27212]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44304]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth,  With ring of Agate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth,  With ring of Agate on her hand,   Can health, wealth, and long life command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50133]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you been drinkin jack and coke all morning. she can make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17465]]></link><description><![CDATA[a beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you been drinkin jack and coke all morning. she can make you feel high, for the single greatest comodity known to man - promise. promise of a better day, promise of a greater hope, promise of a new tomorrow. this particular aura, can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl, in her smile, in her soul, and the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like its gonna be ok]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15292]]></link><description><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, on the rock or sand:   For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world,    And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,  Over the woodlands brown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,  Over the woodlands brown and bare,   Over the harvest-fields forsaken,    Silent, and soft, and slow     Descends the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The higher faiths call their followers to strenuous moral effort. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The higher faiths call their followers to strenuous moral effort. Such effort is likely to be arduous and painful in proportion to the height of the ideal, desperate in proportion to the sensitiveness of the conscience. A morbid scrupulousness besets the morally serious soul. It is anxious and troubled, afraid of evil, haunted by the memory of failure. The best of the Pharisees tended in this direction, and no less the best of the Stoics. And so little has Christianity been understood that the popular idea of a serious Christian is modeled upon the same type of character. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent presses and bookstores give access to literature specific to a place. Readers can find stories they need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independent presses and bookstores give access to literature specific to a place. Readers can find stories they need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease,  And purge it to a sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease,  And purge it to a sound and pristine health,   I would applaud thee to the very echo,    That should applaud you again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17466]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hotel business is on fire. I mean, you look at every major city, and the Four Seasons continues to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hotel business is on fire. I mean, you look at every major city, and the Four Seasons continues to widen its gap over Ritz-Carlton and other premium brands that are out there. But the reality is, you know, the stock is trading at a huge valuation multiple, over 20 times cash flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merritt and Ashley really got us going in the second half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merritt and Ashley really got us going in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is a deciding being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22675]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is a deciding being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and by the reconstruction of (typhoon affected) areas in the US.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20200]]></link><description><![CDATA["Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16624]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16624</guid></item></channel></rss>