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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feel the fear and do it anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feel the fear and do it anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24456]]></link><description><![CDATA[A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26764]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know everybody thinks we have a hidden agenda, but the town wants to remain neutral. This is not some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know everybody thinks we have a hidden agenda, but the town wants to remain neutral. This is not some hidden plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â everyone needs to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380]]></link><description><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18359]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone from cell Butterfly flutterbied cocoon nor hand restrained by glove Jesus away from manger Cage left by Spirit Dove. Sparklings soared away from wand. Chick's egg become the bird. Omkar sung from out the throat Violin's notes now heard. Buddhist temple pine cone tabernacle'd godlet seed Shattered that it might manifest thousand forests of fir tree Eternal snow of mountain top now nurses meadow flowers. Shining never held by sun relentless melts ice towers. Love has left its spring the heart Is now a liquid pond Host stolen from the chalice consumed in mouth of God Starlight abandoned star a billion years ago Left that tonight you might have its sight and know Know Love is forever no drop of God ever dies Lover not bound by form of love God's bodies are not God's souls (to his wife and children on the death of Robert S) (Baba Hari Das: is the author of love is more powerful than lover for love is not bound by form).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55614]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36180]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember I had to play with Nancy Lopez in my first game (foursome) and I didn't know if I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember I had to play with Nancy Lopez in my first game (foursome) and I didn't know if I was going to ask her for autograph. You know, we were so nervous to play with these players that we had never met and obviously they had been idols.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one another's angels ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one another's angels]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation?  Have equal power to adjourn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation?  Have equal power to adjourn,   Appoint appearance and return?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires  Shine and are changed. In the valley   Shadows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires  Shine and are changed. In the valley   Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun    Closing his benediction,     Sinks, and the darkening air      Thrills with the sense of the triumphing night,--       Night with train of stars        And her great gift of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to get better every day. If we can do that, if we can keep winning games and keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31300]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to get better every day. If we can do that, if we can keep winning games and keep gaining confidence in ourselves, we could win a regional. That's been the goal since day one, and nothing has changed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is the courageous side of weakness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is the courageous side of weakness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203   The term "baptism in (or of) the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203   The term "baptism in (or of) the Spirit" conjures up the idea of a separate initiatory experience which every Christian ought to enjoy, whereas evangelicalism is noted for its stress upon a "conversion" experience which marks the beginning of the believer's relationship to his Lord. Too often, alas, conversion has been the end as well as the beginning, with the result that some Christians have looked back, with mingled delight and wistfulness to a past event that now seems to have diminished relevance to daily living. We can fully understand, then, the appeal of a movement which promises a new dimension of Christian living, there in the New Testament, and now available in everyday experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65608]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craft against craft makes no living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Craft against craft makes no living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of men;  The dinner spoiled the temper of his Majesty and then   The Emperor made history--and no one blamed the cook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter at all. All that matters is we got the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter at all. All that matters is we got the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that I can't have I want,  And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that I can't have I want,  And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't,  And what I have to do I hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39199]]></link><description><![CDATA[ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have to try to reduce the amount of data that's at risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12834]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not the result of any information we received but was an unannounced locker search. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not the result of any information we received but was an unannounced locker search.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51958]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has been caught, to skin him. [Lat., Et vulgariter dicitur, quod primun oportet cervum capere, et postea, cum captus fuerit, illum excoriare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14808]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is all nouns and verbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is all nouns and verbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gave me chills. The men carrying Jesus and the women carrying Mary, and I'm not even Catholic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29141]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gave me chills. The men carrying Jesus and the women carrying Mary, and I'm not even Catholic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36979]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477</guid></item></channel></rss>