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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. Unix: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile' !]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To deceive ones selfe is very easie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50002]]></link><description><![CDATA[To deceive ones selfe is very easie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The walls are the publishers of the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The walls are the publishers of the poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25062]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof,   With antique pillars massy proof,    And storied windows richly dight;     Casting a dim religious light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A golden key can open any door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A golden key can open any door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the irrational season Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There'd have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8317]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the irrational season Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There'd have been no room for the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55605]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white wall is the paper of a foole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49084]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white wall is the paper of a foole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world.We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workersand salary slavery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world.We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workersand salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.  The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how to put this into words. In 16 years of working in Triple-A baseball, Mario was right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how to put this into words. In 16 years of working in Triple-A baseball, Mario was right at the top. There was just something about him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was always on the cards and they can justify it on the grounds that the new president will want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was always on the cards and they can justify it on the grounds that the new president will want his own people on the ground. But it sends all the wrong signals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her 'one day at a time.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her 'one day at a time.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father. -Lance Armstrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no church in which the demon will not have his chapel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8683]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no church in which the demon will not have his chapel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Only when a man tries to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Only when a man tries to live the divine life can the divine Christ manifest Himself to him. Therefore, the true way for you to find Christ is not to go groping in a thousand books. It is not for you to try evidences about a thousand things that people have believed of Him, but it is for you to undertake so great a life, so devoted a life, so pure a life, so serviceable a life, that you cannot do it except by Christ, and then see whether Christ helps you. See then whether there comes to you the certainty that you are a child of God, and the manifestation of the child of God becomes the most credible, the most certain thing to you in all of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53277]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3788]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among the crowd and under roofs    That our frail hands have raised?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses. The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree. Better poverty without care, than riches with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's another tough loss. These three-point losses are killing me. We just didn't make the plays when we needed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's another tough loss. These three-point losses are killing me. We just didn't make the plays when we needed to and they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008</guid></item></channel></rss>