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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheating is often more efficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheating is often more efficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother was awarded the Serbian medal of freedomfor raising 3 dysfunctional Croatian sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20118]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother was awarded the Serbian medal of freedomfor raising 3 dysfunctional Croatian sons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is settled anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is settled anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5677]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords;  On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65837]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ceremony as wanting to support the office and the institution in the face of some controversy that's been around Madame Jean, and a desire to be visible in support of her,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,  It is but for a time; I press God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20601]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,  It is but for a time; I press God's lamp   Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late    Will pierce the gloom; I shall emerge one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54695]]></link><description><![CDATA[To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28390]]></link><description><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find God working and manifest in him. He got near to God by some saint of his that went before him, or that stood beside him, in whom he saw the divine presence. That saint again lighted his fire at some flame before him; and so the power of the sainthoods animates and fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in Babylon   And you were a Christian slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48635]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,   and thy want as an armed man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15882]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54348]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46946]]></link><description><![CDATA[A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A popular, independent and developed Iraq will be the best friend of the Iranian nation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41301]]></link><description><![CDATA[A popular, independent and developed Iraq will be the best friend of the Iranian nation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have done well in China . They think once they are on the Nasdaq, they've arrived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have done well in China . They think once they are on the Nasdaq, they've arrived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20009]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a gentle command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22548]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a gentle command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22548</guid></item></channel></rss>