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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3781]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20104]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441]]></link><description><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It beat us up a little bit to play at 95 degrees for three straight days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37147]]></link><description><![CDATA[It beat us up a little bit to play at 95 degrees for three straight days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to take a lot of pushing and shoving in the U.S. and Europe to get the concessions from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38833]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to take a lot of pushing and shoving in the U.S. and Europe to get the concessions from rich countries that will keep poor countries involved in the negotiations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12904]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to do more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to do more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to assume there will be more deals. That certainly would be a positive for credit quality in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38803]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to assume there will be more deals. That certainly would be a positive for credit quality in the equipment space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19932]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is not food. Hence a man’s reaction to monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianismare political systems. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianismare political systems. There are democratic communistsand totalitarian capitalists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58769]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New stock offerings on the market are attracting more interest. There's also a lot of speculative trading by investors on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36513]]></link><description><![CDATA[New stock offerings on the market are attracting more interest. There's also a lot of speculative trading by investors on the hope that the index will keep touching record highs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people can be a little fickle. They'll go for the newest, hottest thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people can be a little fickle. They'll go for the newest, hottest thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49354]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain. [Lat., Sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus et mihi vivam  Quod superest aevi--si quid superesse volunt di.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions and gross margin improvements,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brute without a single redeeming point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brute without a single redeeming point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38112]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right now to dredge out an area around Pier 6 so we can bring in barges and help facilitate the removal of the debris. But it's going to take months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53156]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when the wound is healed the scar remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want, the mistress of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want, the mistress of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40181</guid></item></channel></rss>