Quote by Raymond Chandler
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

Other quotes by Raymond Chandler

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. – Raymond Chandler

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Public
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I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability. – Raymond Chandler

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Cats
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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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Language
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Intelligence
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These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border. – Paul Cellucci

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Intelligence

But by providing the background picture – the universal situational awareness that we desire – by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence. – Stephen Cambone

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Intelligence

Im the chairman of the intelligence committee. We dont only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways. – Mike Rogers

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Intelligence

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. – Edward Thorndike

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Intelligence

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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. – Horace

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Emotions

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence womens voices regarding their own health care. – Sandra Fluke

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Health

There probably arent a lot of actors my age who tap dance. – Christopher Walken

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. – Francis Bacon

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Truth