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Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

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The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. – Raymond Chandler

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I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. – Aldrich Ames

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The Queens intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyones in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I dont know how she does it. And she sees everything. – Prince Andrew

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. – Confucius

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I think theres a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you dont have to think about it. – Clyde Tombaugh

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