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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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The moment a man begins to talk about technique thats proof that he is fresh out of ideas. – Raymond Chandler

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Talent
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Raymond Chandler
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The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. – Raymond Chandler

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Hollywood
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Raymond Chandler
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Other Quotes from
Intelligence
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The Germans certainly – the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing. – David Kay

Category:
Intelligence

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. – Daniel Goleman

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Intelligence

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser. – Richard Shelby

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Intelligence

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. – Albert Camus

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Intelligence

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I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they dont sell out to the new ones. – Kathleen Turner

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respect

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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thankful

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. – Ronald Reagan

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Politics

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. – Howard Zinn

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power