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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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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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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. – Raymond Chandler

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Age
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Other Quotes from
Intelligence
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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf

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Intelligence

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didnt have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. – Nicolas Cage

Category:
Intelligence

I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City. – E. Howard Hunt

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Intelligence

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Intelligence

Random Quotes

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Nature

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? – Ivan Turgenev

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strength

Youre in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. – Dr. Seuss

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good

Any work thats worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. Thats true if youre running a business, its true if youre trying to help on a campaign. – Carly Fiorina

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Business