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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only part to meet again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only part to meet again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11313]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56843]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56843</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[Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare,  Gin ye'll consent to be his bride, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4898]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare,  Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,   Nor think o'Donald mair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I fell in love with my wife, Julie, and I felt it was important to provide properly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41381]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I fell in love with my wife, Julie, and I felt it was important to provide properly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which could hit corporate profitability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which could hit corporate profitability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing against that type of speed, we learned that we can move the ball if we execute. We've just got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing against that type of speed, we learned that we can move the ball if we execute. We've just got to be more fundamentally sound on the defensive side of the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with what you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42765]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49132]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15845]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14600]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value of our company, including those proposed by Mr. Icahn and his group. Investors should rest assured that this evaluation is being done in a prudent and deliberate manner with an eye toward creating sustainable value for all of our shareholders and as always we will keep our shareholders informed regarding our initiatives and direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A business with an income at its heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A business with an income at its heels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long;  So instead of getting to heaven at last, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48082]]></link><description><![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long;  So instead of getting to heaven at last,   I'm going all along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confessed faults are half-mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confessed faults are half-mended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own poor performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42654]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this age know what they want to say but don't have the language skills to say it yet. The signing bridges that gap and allows them to let their needs be known before they're able to tell us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39568]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not only do we not have to worry about privacy but you can profit from it by a career perspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone;  As yet the early-rising sun   Has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone;  As yet the early-rising sun   Has not attained its noone.    . . . .     We have short time to stay as you,      We have as short a spring;       As quick a growth to meet decay        As you or anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to get everyone playing time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to get everyone playing time,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In art, the obvious is a sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63509]]></link><description><![CDATA[In art, the obvious is a sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21573]]></link><description><![CDATA[What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13711]]></link><description><![CDATA[False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight inthe recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight inthe recognition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bluntness is a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bluntness is a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1238]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2599]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards! Dick Maliska  Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. •Jeff Raskin   Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. •Anonymous   The Programmer's Time-Space Continuum is defined as "Programmers continuously space the time." •Leon Lanthier   Computers are useless - they only give you answers. •Pablo Picasso   "Paradosfunctionoracle" is the term used by technicians to describe the reason no one knows why your computer won't work. •J. H. Goldfuss   No machine will increase the possibilities of life. They only increase the possibilities of idleness. •John Ruskin   All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. •Anonymous  Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. •James Magary  Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. •E W Dijkstra  Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. •Popular Mechanics, 1949  Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. •Andy Rooney  Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. •Edward Shepherd Mead  A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. •John Gall   There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. •Bill Gates  If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. •Bill Gates  Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. •MG Siriam   Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. •Tom Fasulo   Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. •William Gibson   URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. •Chris Clark   My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. •Penn Jillett   We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. •Robert Wilensky   It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. •Denise Caruso   Wow! They've got the internet on computers now! •Homer Simpson  Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. •Scott Adams  I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. •Isaac Asimov   Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning. •Rich Cook   If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. •Robert Cringely   I try to get people to see what I have... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams. •Steve Jobs   The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. •Porterfield   People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago. •Anonymous  Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. •Anonymous  But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. •Bruce Leverett  Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12454]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44427]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need,according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment andfinancial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need,according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment andfinancial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking.Thought rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like summer tempest came her tears: Sweet my child, I live for thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like summer tempest came her tears: Sweet my child, I live for thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51704</guid></item></channel></rss>