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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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The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.
The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.

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