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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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Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
To save time is to lengthen life.
Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."
We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.
Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

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