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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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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. – Raymond Chandler

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Hollywood
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Raymond Chandler
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. – Raymond Chandler

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Attitude
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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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Intelligence
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. – George Orwell

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Intelligence

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get. – Frank Carlucci

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Intelligence

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. – Alan Alda

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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

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People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. – Edith Wharton

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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history. – Ralph Nader

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In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and thats what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true. – Loretta Young

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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. – Brian Ferneyhough

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