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There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld

Unknown, Unknowns

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein

Lonely, Strange

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Until, Knows

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain

Life, Real, Person

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln

Politics, Done, Pretty

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

Great, Old, Happened

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Jim Morrison

Between, Unknown, Doors

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Intense, Mode

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare

Love, Courage, Heart

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
Kurt Cobain

Enemy, Nothing, Friend

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Blaise Pascal

God, Heart, Through

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

Peace, War, Powerful

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom

Trust, God, Future

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare

Wine, Spirit, Devil

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
Ronald Reagan

Goes, Generation, Beyond

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan

Waiting, Somewhere, Incredible

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, History, Die

This is the strangest life I've ever known.
Jim Morrison

Life, Strangest

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe

Experience, Live, Long

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
Confucius

Yourself, May, Office

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Khalil Gibran

Humble, Him, Jesus

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Before, Fact

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
John Lennon

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin

Life, Adversity, Lose

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates

Proud, Until, Wealth

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Peace, Wife, Father

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil

Love, Friendship, Good

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed

Peace, Mind, Feeling

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt Disney

Love, Woman, Mouse

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren Buffett

Money, Before, Simply

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