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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I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability. – Raymond Chandler

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Cats
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If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. – Will Cuppy

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Intelligence

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. – Titus Livius

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Intelligence

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and thats why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center. – Jim Ramstad

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Intelligence

Be smarter than other people, just dont tell them so. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Intelligence

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The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs. – Charles Foster Bass

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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But when I dont smoke I scarcely feel as if Im living. I dont feel as if Im living unless Im killing myself. – Russell Hoban

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And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them its like a treasure hunt, you know. – Will Wright

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