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"There are unknown unknowns" is a phrase from a response United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave to a question at a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) news briefing on February 12, 2002, about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. Rumsfeld stated:Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.

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Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the last thing they really want.
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.
Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
Success isn't necessarily permanent - but neither is failure.
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."
The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.
Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.
The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.
The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both
If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.

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