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. Donald Rumsfeld
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Every time we hear a news report of an event, we know we must have heard about it already. But we don't know what we don't know. If you don't want to be caught unaware, then you had better pay attention to all the information that is available to you.

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