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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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They dont want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they cant use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them. – Raymond Chandler

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Hollywood
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Raymond Chandler
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. – Raymond Chandler

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Advertising
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Raymond Chandler
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Other Quotes from
Intelligence
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The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions. – Leonard Boswell

Category:
Intelligence

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of being there, any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play. – Gary Gygax

Category:
Intelligence

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student. – Paul Graham

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Intelligence

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

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Intelligence

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I looked Death right in the face. – Travis Barker

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Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days… or a few months after childbirth. – Richard J. Codey

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Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. – Sonia Johnson

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