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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38829]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole family is packed into one trap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole family is packed into one trap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25325]]></link><description><![CDATA[English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[C. S. Lewis] was leery of too many prayers that leave all the work to God and other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7980]]></link><description><![CDATA[[C. S. Lewis] was leery of too many prayers that leave all the work to God and other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no evil without its compensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no evil without its compensation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and lost   That never to have fought at all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe:  Now warm in love, now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe:  Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,   Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29898]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose of using these bombs was to test their efficiency, not to kill Saddam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise  Thee and thy suit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise  Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes:   Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in a day of overdone distinctions, one might point out that interpretations are not properly to be classified as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in a day of overdone distinctions, one might point out that interpretations are not properly to be classified as historical or dogmatic, but as true or false. If they are false, it does not matter whether they be called dogmatic or historical; and if they are true, they may quite well be both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the same as you, we can sing, we can speak different languages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on prices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their strength is inside. We flooded the post, so anything they wanted to score was from the outside and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their strength is inside. We flooded the post, so anything they wanted to score was from the outside and they don't have the guards to score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37149]]></link><description><![CDATA[We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that we could sacrifice was an average of a dollar an hour. Those employees are on the low end of the scale. They're making eight, nine dollars an hour ... so a dollar from them is a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette    Waiting are they? Well let'em wait! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette    Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man is, so he sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44797]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man is, so he sees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform is alive and well within Islam, but it will only happen by those from within Islam and not those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reform is alive and well within Islam, but it will only happen by those from within Islam and not those who hate Islam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55486]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10708]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you’re thirty you’re old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you’re thirty you’re old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind is my own church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53547]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind is my own church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64141]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill fortune seldom comes alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill fortune seldom comes alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   We must be willing to accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have things in the yard that might blow away, bring them inside and trim trees and other vegetation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33956]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have things in the yard that might blow away, bring them inside and trim trees and other vegetation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of saying we all sit together and agree to share the profit is highly problematic because different groups ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of saying we all sit together and agree to share the profit is highly problematic because different groups of people will demand a bigger slice of the pie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60425</guid></item></channel></rss>