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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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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be. – Raymond Chandler

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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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I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in American Wedding. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page. – January Jones

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We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence. – Bob Graham

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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that theres some intelligence behind the cartoons, and theres a lot of work thats gone into it, so it cant all be just a lie. – Damon Albarn

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