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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks a cruel bee that stings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie  That can be given to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26115]]></link><description><![CDATA[You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie  That can be given to a man's face, I now   Say what I think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   Like keys of some great instrument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly the barrier to the use of the drug off label has been raised, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly the barrier to the use of the drug off label has been raised,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've become a very sought-after partner for developing Broadway musicals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've become a very sought-after partner for developing Broadway musicals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380]]></link><description><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, Time shall not see   The hour that tears my soul from thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We should not draw too sharp a distinction between this "barren land" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We should not draw too sharp a distinction between this "barren land" or "wilderness" of our pilgrimage, and the sweet home that God has prepared. We all know the changes and chances of this troublous life; but we can also know in this vale of tears the healthful spirit of His grace. Health for the whole man is God's gracious purpose for us here and now, often frustrated, often prevented by unbelief. The life of the saints in light must not emphasize for us simply the contrast between their state and ours, but rather the beginning of the gift of eternal life and all its benefits of inner strength and peace amid earthly vicissitudes. .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em. [Lat., Libertas et natale solum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em. [Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    A man's physical hunger does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    A man's physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will. A man may love a woman and not win her; but it would be very odd if the phenomenon called `falling in love" occurred in a sexless world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65729]]></link><description><![CDATA[A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a huge agenda for Blair. But in an hour-long meeting, Africa and global warming will take no more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36130]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a huge agenda for Blair. But in an hour-long meeting, Africa and global warming will take no more than 10 minutes each. Those are showpiece elements to Blair's leadership but not the most important issues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;  And the sad truth, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;  And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk,   Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6266]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is very much alive and speaking to us through all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47095]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that "one man is as good as another;" a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47095</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[Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hit some bad shots but didn't let it get to me. The course is there for the taking, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hit some bad shots but didn't let it get to me. The course is there for the taking, you can make some birdies out there. I started with a 62 in my last European win and the club manager who was at the Mines Resort in Malaysia is now running this club here. It could be a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many ways this is turned into a developing country, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many ways this is turned into a developing country,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,   Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The logic of the heart is absurd ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The logic of the heart is absurd]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2446]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, it's the farm's pickup, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, it's the farm's pickup,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66919]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and easy to be around, easy to like? Then our self concept was a lie, told to us by cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15333]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42841]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20507]]></link><description><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills -- neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51622]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hopefully, this was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hopefully, this was a glimpse of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2783]]></link><description><![CDATA[For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol-maker may know, more or less clearly, that he is only giving shape to the half-formed concept of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol-maker may know, more or less clearly, that he is only giving shape to the half-formed concept of God in his head; that his images are solid metaphors -- what we call symbols. The skeptical Greek philosopher may remind us that, after all, the image of Athena is only a symbol, only a means of fixing one's rambling thoughts upon the spirit that is Athena. Yet the idolater will persist in losing sight of the forest for the trees, and the god for the image. The gold and ivory statue of Athena becomes holy in itself, an answerer of prayer, a mysterious source of power, a material object somehow different from other objects. The crucifix, the plaster image, the saint's relic or miraculous medal or cheaply and illegibly printed Bible may become themselves things considered holy and magical, able to stop a bullet. Worse yet, the god confined in an image is a shrunken and powerless god. Because you have limited your concept of God to a man shape on a carved crucifix, you may be in danger of inferring that you are free to outrage the man shapes walking and breathing around you. Because you worship the god in a specially baked wafer and a specially designed chalice, you may forget to worship the God of all bread and all wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7509</guid></item></channel></rss>