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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can fin

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. – Raymond Chandler

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Art
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Raymond Chandler
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Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

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Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how were doing it. – Brad Thor

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Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. – Aldrich Ames

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Intelligence

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and thats why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center. – Jim Ramstad

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Bill Gates wants people to think hes Edison, when hes really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isnt right… wealth isnt the same thing as intelligence. – Larry Ellison

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