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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9831]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From the hills our Fathers trod:    To the quiet of the skies:     To the Sabbath of our God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kept the game plan simple. We told them to come out and play like this was an elimination game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kept the game plan simple. We told them to come out and play like this was an elimination game because we have one on Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27944]]></link><description><![CDATA[When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your speech, Bush, is full of lies and full of unreasonable argument, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your speech, Bush, is full of lies and full of unreasonable argument,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth condemns; maturity condones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth condemns; maturity condones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19783]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're exploiting the s--- out of Comic-Con. Spread the word because Warner Bros. doesn't know what in hell to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're exploiting the s--- out of Comic-Con. Spread the word because Warner Bros. doesn't know what in hell to do with this movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we believe we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we believe we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26539]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22305]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't judge me... \'cause you ain't me... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't judge me... \'cause you ain't me...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world;  And, for because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48267]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world;  And, for because the world is populous,   And here is not a creature but myself,    I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though Romeo might not say it, I'm sure Sunday is going to be different than any other game he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though Romeo might not say it, I'm sure Sunday is going to be different than any other game he's ever coached,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we like. But we couldn't put them away. They just kept hanging around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34196]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we like. But we couldn't put them away. They just kept hanging around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21982]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure Norwood is doing the thing they think they need to do from a financial standpoint to keep their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure Norwood is doing the thing they think they need to do from a financial standpoint to keep their company healthy. But from a human nature standpoint, it's a tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness. [Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He describes himself as a mild depressive, and he goes through just terrible suffering, much of it self-generated. And yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37099]]></link><description><![CDATA[He describes himself as a mild depressive, and he goes through just terrible suffering, much of it self-generated. And yet he's also an extremely buoyant person who finds a great deal in life to entertain and instruct and amuse him. He has a kind of vivacity about him. He's very funny, and he's very obsessed with certain themes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not expect good from another's death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not expect good from another's death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", a textbook salesman and evangelist extraordinary, is the innocent fool, in the kindliest sense of both the noun and the adjective. He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes;  Their white is stays for ever,   Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes;  Their white is stays for ever,   Their red it never dies;    But Phyllida, my Phillida!     Her colour comes and goes;      It trembles to a lily,--       It wavers to a rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs never bite me. Just humans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs never bite me. Just humans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just making smart investments because they know people are coming. They have the money, and they saw a hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31336]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just making smart investments because they know people are coming. They have the money, and they saw a hot market, so it was easy for them to step in in a big way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text;  And embryo good, to reach full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48370]]></link><description><![CDATA[From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text;  And embryo good, to reach full stature,   Absorbs the evil in its nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the animated avatars come out on the market? Yes. Will people buy them? Yes. They're fun and entertaining. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will the animated avatars come out on the market? Yes. Will people buy them? Yes. They're fun and entertaining. But there's a limit to what consumers will spend -- they're already buying games, ring tones, videos, and music. The average cell-phone bill is already around $50. And consumers have shown [a willingness] to spend an extra 5% to 10% a month for data services. But they're not going to spend an unlimited amount for more and more services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Made poetry a mere mechanic art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Made poetry a mere mechanic art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46752</guid></item></channel></rss>