Quote by Raymond Chandler
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. – 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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Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

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Society
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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New Yorks World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. – Marilyn vos Savant

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During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline. – Bob Graham

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Intelligence

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agencys culture. He has failed. He should go. – Richard Perle

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When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early 90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didnt want to, because they had no pilots. – Robert M. Gates

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Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business. – Mitt Romney

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Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. – Johann Most

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