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And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
– Stacy Schiff

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  2. History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy. – Stacy Schiff
  3. Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. Confronted afterward, she claimed no knowledge of that bedroom tryst; she did not intend to be held responsible for men’s dreams. – Stacy Schiff
  5. Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity. – Stacy Schiff
  6. It has always been preferable to attribute a woman’s success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life. – Stacy Schiff
  7. When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere. – Stacy Schiff
  8. Sometimes you’ve got to get a machete and hack your way through the kudzu to make your own path in life. – Carolyn Brown
  9. They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers. – C G Jung
  10. Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more. – Tim Palmer
  11. A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen. – Noam Shpancer
  12. Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. – Paulo Coelho
  13. In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it’s evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void. – Glenn Beck
  14. Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done. – Donald L Hicks
  15. These,- he said gravely, -œare unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. – Aldous Huxley
  16. Knowing your feelings won’t change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings. – Marlene Chism
  17. Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. – Anthony Liccione
  18. Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day Jr
  19. Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods. – Chuck Todd
  20. Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded. – Mike Klepper
  21. You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts. – Steven Levy
  22. Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. Absence makes the bloody ????? wander. ~ Heartbreak’s A Bitch! – SM Phillips
  23. Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear. – Ursula Franklin
  24. Peace is not the absence of war-”peace is the absence of fear. – Ursula Franklin
  25. Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else’s interest before one’s own. – Michelle Cohen Corasanti
  26. Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. – Neal A Maxwell
  27. But the absence of tears wasn’t the same as an absence of feeling. – Lisa Kleypas
  28. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence – Mantra
  29. Whoever thought up the phrase -˜Absence makes the heart grow founder’ was an idiot.Absence makes a bitch go crazy. -Elli, While Shea is Away – Toni Aleo
  30. Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. – Richard Schiff
  31. I don’t want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s. – Peter D Schiff
  32. My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History – Ahmed Farrag
  33. Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
  34. History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history – ETC Wanyanwu
  35. You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. – Anthony Doerr
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  37. …that it is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. – Brian Friel
  38. Silence can be a planrigorously executedthe blueprint to a lifeIt is a presenceit has a history a formDo not confuse itwith any kind of absence – Adrienne Rich
  39. It took me a long time to realiseThat mothers are women who carry you And not necessarily in their womb. – Stacy Morris
  40. Don’t confuse -œstrict confidentiality- with -œkeeping employees in the dark.- Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive. – Stacy Feiner

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