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Bonus!! Listen to four of them, set to music here. 
It's a book, now a CD (see above).
Taken from his briefings and other public statements , the man's ouvre is a stunning combination of Jean Paul Satre and William Wordsworth!
Some examples:
Happenings
<P class=text>You're going to be told lots of things.
You get told things every day that don't happen.
<P class=text>It doesn't seem to bother people, they don't--
It's printed in the press.
The world thinks all these things happen.
They never happened.
<P class=text>Everyone's so eager to get the story
Before in fact the story's there
That the world is constantly being fed
Things that haven't happened.
All I can tell you is,
It hasn't happened.
It's going to happen.
Clarity
I think what you'll find,
I think what you'll find is,
Whatever it is we do substantively,
There will be near-perfect clarity
As to what it is.
And it will be known,
And it will be known to the Congress,
And it will be known to you,
Probably before we decide it,
But it will be known.
The Unknown
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.
In Command (a haiku!)
A government is
governing or it's not, And
If not, someone else is.
It's a book, now a CD (see above).
Taken from his briefings and other public statements , the man's ouvre is a stunning combination of Jean Paul Satre and William Wordsworth!
Some examples:
Happenings
<P class=text>You're going to be told lots of things.
You get told things every day that don't happen.
<P class=text>It doesn't seem to bother people, they don't--
It's printed in the press.
The world thinks all these things happen.
They never happened.
<P class=text>Everyone's so eager to get the story
Before in fact the story's there
That the world is constantly being fed
Things that haven't happened.
All I can tell you is,
It hasn't happened.
It's going to happen.
Clarity
I think what you'll find,
I think what you'll find is,
Whatever it is we do substantively,
There will be near-perfect clarity
As to what it is.
And it will be known,
And it will be known to the Congress,
And it will be known to you,
Probably before we decide it,
But it will be known.
The Unknown
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.
In Command (a haiku!)
A government is
governing or it's not, And
If not, someone else is.
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