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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63394]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For violent fires soon burn out themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51501]]></link><description><![CDATA[For violent fires soon burn out themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7347]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. Deem not I shall awake Him! On these deeps   Peace reigns, like that the Blessed know on high. To Hope, the vovage seems one little day;   Faith's hand shall soon the veil between remove; 'Tis Charity that swells my sail alway.     I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39593]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61308]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,   May give a shock of pleasure to the frame    More exquisite than when nectarean juice     Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects, ... Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects, ... Try to be polite ... and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum   Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La cordiale entente qui existe entre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La cordiale entente qui existe entre le gouvernement francais et celui de la Grande-Bretagne.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man has his fancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man has his fancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36665]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29099]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34438]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35895]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their income will go up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We produced a good all-round performance and I suppose the only slight concern was that the top order batsmen could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41968]]></link><description><![CDATA[We produced a good all-round performance and I suppose the only slight concern was that the top order batsmen could have done better,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9371]]></link><description><![CDATA[One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/68]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/68</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much agreement kills the chat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much agreement kills the chat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These cans of energy drinks have some enticing, very sexy-sounding claims -- that they lift you up, that they give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40864]]></link><description><![CDATA[These cans of energy drinks have some enticing, very sexy-sounding claims -- that they lift you up, that they give you more energy. Frankly, they're nothing much more than caffeine in a can with a lot of sugar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So--now the danger dared at last, Look back and smile at perils past! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51101]]></link><description><![CDATA[So--now the danger dared at last, Look back and smile at perils past!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise;  Learn all we lacked before; hear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise;  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say   What this tumultuous body now denies;    And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;     And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66234]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are declining to discuss the details of the bargaining. We're doing our bargaining at the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are declining to discuss the details of the bargaining. We're doing our bargaining at the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16858]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.   - George Bancroft,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46848]]></link><description><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent,   But only want and discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the database goes, so goes Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35287]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the database goes, so goes Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9554]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol's a big problem which we need to solve and if that means going to primary schools then we've got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol's a big problem which we need to solve and if that means going to primary schools then we've got to consider it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very telling that marshals are interested in going to Border Patrol at a lower pay grade, a very revealing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very telling that marshals are interested in going to Border Patrol at a lower pay grade, a very revealing reflection of low morale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38933</guid></item></channel></rss>