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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there was one fellow that wanted to give me a good swift kick in the rear end for not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there was one fellow that wanted to give me a good swift kick in the rear end for not getting our work done,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes:  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes:  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If misery loves company, misery has company enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42777]]></link><description><![CDATA[If misery loves company, misery has company enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11871]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I left that, I wanted to continue programming films, so I started the Jewish film festival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39226]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I left that, I wanted to continue programming films, so I started the Jewish film festival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   Be not angry that you cannot make others as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9974]]></link><description><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentence first, verdict afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentence first, verdict afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47506]]></link><description><![CDATA[This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and to strengthen the weak by teaching them their rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such  As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12629]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such  As see not the First Cause entire: and ye,   O mortal men! be wary how ye judge:    For we, who see the Maker, know not yet     The number of the chosen; and esteem      Such scantiness of knowledge our delight:       For all good is, in that primal good,        Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will always be your child's favorite toy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will always be your child's favorite toy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53681]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just don't know what it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just don't know what it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world;  And, for because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48267]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world;  And, for because the world is populous,   And here is not a creature but myself,    I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43660]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20909]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius paeres,   Nec habet eventus sordida praeda bonos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the mere existence of unusual criminals that [has] ravaged our world; for the arrangements of society (whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the mere existence of unusual criminals that [has] ravaged our world; for the arrangements of society (whether national or international) ought always to presume that some of these will be lurking somewhere. The gates have been opened to evil in part because of a terrible discrepancy between human ideals and actual possibilities -- terrible heresies concerning the nature of man and the structure of the historical universe. Christianity, even if it cannot persuade men to rise to the contemplation of the spiritual things, embodies principles which may at least have the effect of bringing the dreamers down to earth. Because it confronts the problem of human sin, it can face our difficulties and dilemmas without evasions -- without the fundamental evasiveness of those who believe that all would be well with the world if it were not for a few unspeakable criminals, always conveniently identified with the political enemy of the moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10719]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I plan to begin a thorough national search for a new coach immediately. I am confident that we will find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I plan to begin a thorough national search for a new coach immediately. I am confident that we will find the right fit as we move forward to renew men's basketball at Duquesne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's definitely a lot more pressure there [the Olympics], but I'm really looking forward to it. I think it's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42087]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's definitely a lot more pressure there [the Olympics], but I'm really looking forward to it. I think it's going to be a really good experience. I can remember looking back watching my first Olympics when I was like 10 years old, so it's cool to be a part of it now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52446]]></link><description><![CDATA[No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Think it not hard if you get not your will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turay had the big shot and it was nice to get the early lead. That was big because we didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turay had the big shot and it was nice to get the early lead. That was big because we didn't know whether this would be a five-inning game or not (because of the weather).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414</guid></item></channel></rss>