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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are not men and yet they stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46878]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  If the [Incarnation] happened, it was the central event ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  If the [Incarnation] happened, it was the central event in the history of the Earth -- the very thing that the whole story has been about. Since it happened only once, it is by Hume's standards infinitely improbable. But then, the whole history of the Earth has also happened only once: is it therefore incredible? Hence the difficulty, which weighs upon Christian and atheist alike, of estimating the probability of the Incarnation. It is like asking whether the existence of nature herself is intrinsically probable. That is why it is easier to argue, on historical grounds, that the Incarnation actually occurred than to show, on philosophical grounds, the probability of its occurrence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19865]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41288]]></link><description><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an Israeli carnage, the result of which must be shared by all parties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52893]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any,  'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any,  'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,   And 'tis belov'd of many:    Other joys Are but toys;     Only this Lawful is,      For our skill Breeds no ill,       But content and pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53217]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6944</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[Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The LSE is the crown jewel of European exchanges. It's the only brand strong enough to get listing revenues from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The LSE is the crown jewel of European exchanges. It's the only brand strong enough to get listing revenues from companies...The only way for someone to own U.K. stock trading is to own the LSE.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is down need fear no fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42784]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down need fear no fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  God will not hold us responsible to understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who spares the wicked injures the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51613]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who spares the wicked injures the good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin  At him here;   But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin  At him here;   But the old three-cornered hat    And the breeches and all that     Are so queer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here andnow, unless I am letting my consciousness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here andnow, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands andexpectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41321]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gaming industry is notoriously paranoid. It was easier for me to be wearing a gun within an arm's reach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gaming industry is notoriously paranoid. It was easier for me to be wearing a gun within an arm's reach of the president of the United States than get approval to carry a firearm in a casino.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the longfingered sunreaches out to toucha cloistered trillium or a lake trembles inthe light of moon and starsso can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43492]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the longfingered sunreaches out to toucha cloistered trillium or a lake trembles inthe light of moon and starsso can a poet's long rainbowof wordsplay our heartstrings from afar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion wehold of ourselves with the appalling things that other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion wehold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think aboutus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52330]]></link><description><![CDATA[When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable "animated instrument" which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the timid soul, nothing is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20658]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the timid soul, nothing is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/541]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral  Shining unto no other end   Than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral  Shining unto no other end   Than to presage the grass's fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luckily the disc was in the up position, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luckily the disc was in the up position,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42238]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn`t what romantic songs tell us it is - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn`t what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo and buy a condom, it's a lot easier than going to the local shop and buying them, when everyone knows what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6221</guid></item></channel></rss>