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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what love can do, that does love attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51468]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what love can do, that does love attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40215]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45980]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read to know we are not alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52990]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read to know we are not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53368]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time has come for concerted action to share the burden of adjustment and maximize the benefits that such action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time has come for concerted action to share the burden of adjustment and maximize the benefits that such action can produce,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Southern Baptist Convention today would be part of the religious right and 20 years ago it would have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Southern Baptist Convention today would be part of the religious right and 20 years ago it would have been more mainstream. I think it would also be fair to say the conservatives have developed pretty strong ties to the Republican Party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33376]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that you get now just want to play. It has to be taught and instilled in them. That's basically what we had to do with this group. They're just now getting the concept of what it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to her cloth she cut her coat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51966]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to her cloth she cut her coat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   What I aspired to be,    And was not, comforts me:     A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The initial reaction is being surprised and pleased. We had feared that this was another giant step down the coast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The initial reaction is being surprised and pleased. We had feared that this was another giant step down the coast by this organism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63045]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!  The things, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!  The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,   But wonder how the devil they got there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5212]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is love in search of a word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is love in search of a word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4885]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some shelled out money for drugs and they need to be reimbursed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some shelled out money for drugs and they need to be reimbursed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5461]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62108]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897   People talk about special providences. I believe in the providences, but not in the speciality. I do not believe that God lets the thread of my affairs go for six days, and on the seventh evening takes it up for a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it on;    Let it travel down the years,     Let it wipe another's tears,      'Till in Heaven the deed appears--       Pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you label me you negate me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you label me you negate me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43400]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art the ruins of the noblest man   That ever lived in the tide of times.    Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, butrather a person with a certain set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, butrather a person with a certain set of attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37413]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposition sought to exploit the achievements of the upheaval, so it brokered a deal in Paris in mid-April, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposition sought to exploit the achievements of the upheaval, so it brokered a deal in Paris in mid-April, which allowed the Lebanese-Syrian police regime to buy time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every silver lining has a cloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every silver lining has a cloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28549]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47141]]></link><description><![CDATA[While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but they will see there's very limited space. And the space they have open, I'd be surprised if they (have) any luck finding a place to live,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66638</guid></item></channel></rss>