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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38725]]></link><description><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from purest snow   And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can experience loss of memory, daytime sleepiness. They can also have a difficulty concentrating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39463]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can experience loss of memory, daytime sleepiness. They can also have a difficulty concentrating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have all these offenders in that area who could be anywhere. There is no mechanism in place for them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40486]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have all these offenders in that area who could be anywhere. There is no mechanism in place for them to be registering as they should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint the meadows with delight,    The cuckoo then, on every tree,     Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo;      Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,       Unpleasing to a married ear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it anyway.' He started throwing the breaking ball with the fastball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every parting there is an image of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45563]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every parting there is an image of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't feel comfortable taking the things that people were dropping off, but the people at Crossroads insisted I did. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31245]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't feel comfortable taking the things that people were dropping off, but the people at Crossroads insisted I did. They told me that people brought those things there just for me and that they wanted me to have them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5538]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65645]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a good decade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a good decade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie. [Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie. [Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33689]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would,  Acts little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54505]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would,  Acts little of his will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35777]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is taxation without legislation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is taxation without legislation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are Many things that I would Like to say to you But I Don't know How. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57194]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are Many things that I would Like to say to you But I Don't know How.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24030]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54893]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41203]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61081]]></link><description><![CDATA[People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight   Another golden chamber of the king's    Larger than this we leave, and lovelier.     And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect,      The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves.       The will of God is all in all. He makes,        Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52922]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10235]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63754]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years,   On one he leans: some call her Memory,    And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,     With deep mysterious accords: the other,      Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams       A light divine and searching on the earth,        Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,         Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,          Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp           Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked            But for Tradition; we walk evermore             To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2280]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60811]]></link><description><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self-sins... dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The self-sins... dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our attention till the light of God is focused upon them. The grosser manifestations of these sins -- egotism, exhibitionism, self-promotion -- are strangely tolerated in Christian leaders, even in circles of impeccable orthodoxy. They are so much in evidence as actually, for many people, to become identified with the gospel. I trust it is not a cynical observation to say that they appear these days to be a requisite for popularity in some sections of the Church visible. Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food,  Nothing to wear out but clothes,   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food,  Nothing to wear out but clothes,   To keep one from going nude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47222]]></link><description><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Beyond the Horizon, 1942.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child of those tears. [Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58782]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child of those tears. [Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58814]]></link><description><![CDATA[If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35667</guid></item></channel></rss>