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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.
Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.
Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.
The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.
A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.
To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.
If marriage is your object,
You'd better start loving your subject.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.
"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

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