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Reports that say that something hasnt 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 dont know we dont know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones. - Donald H Rumsfeld Quotes
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. - Ella Maillart Quotes
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. - George S Patton Quotes
Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. - Howard Thurman Quotes
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. - Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
What we have today is a different kind of enemy - its not a country, its not a particular society, its not a religion. It has an unknown face. - Ricardo Lagos Quotes
We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75. - Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes
Failure is a word unknown to me. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah Quotes
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. - William Hazlitt Quotes
Im at the depot, and Im not going anywhere. Thats better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they dont want to fail. They dont want to pay the price unless theres a guarantee theyre going to get there. - Mark Spitz Quotes
The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity. - Stuart Seaton Quotes
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. - Publilius Syrus Quotes
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. - Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces. - Georg Buchner Quotes
There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter! - George Washington Cable Quotes
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. - Thomas Carlyle Quotes
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful. - Frederick William Robertson Quotes
No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didnt know who I was from a fly on the wall. - Shia Labeouf Quotes
Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know. - Mark Oliphant Quotes
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. - William Wordsworth Quotes
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. - David Brooks Quotes
Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain. - Paul Daniels Quotes
With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world. - Alfred De Musset Quotes
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. - Eudora Welty Quotes
My husband came up to Hot Rocks to check up on me, why is still unknown to me because if I was to cheat on him it wouldnt be in a neighborhood bar where he knows I am. - Kim Mathers Quotes
I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. - Samantha Bee Quotes
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. - O Henry Quotes
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