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And there is no way anyone could, even if the military was twice as conscientious. It is unknowable, unless you assume that every act of abuse is immediately reported up the chain of command.

Tom Malinowski
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken
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He's a known character. We designed it so that when you see Caesar, it's through other people's eyes, it's how the people around him see him. Because, to a degree, a character like Caesar is always unknowable.

Bruno Heller
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This is an unknowable question, ... All we can do in medicine is to infer.

David Grimes
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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

James Duffecy
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

Abraham Robinson
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

Leslie Stephen
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God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

Leo Strauss
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce
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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

Rene Magritte
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

H. L. Mencken
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This is a volatile race. The end result is unknowable.

Alec Lamis
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RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. 'What is your religion my son?' inquired the Archbishop of Rheims. 'Pardon, monseigneur,' replied Rochebriant; 'I am ashamed of it.' 'Then why do you not become an atheist?' 'Impossible! I should be ashamed of atheism.' 'In that case, monsieur, you should join the Protestants.'

Ambrose Bierce
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[The struggle to understand what seems unknowable] is something I love, ... to face up to the continuing attacks on science.

Lawrence Krauss
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Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein
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The problem in the stock market it not that it's unknowable, and not that it's too complicated. The problem in the stock market is that we don't let our good ideas work. We're always getting in the way of our better ideas.

James O'shaughnessy
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