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Raymond Chandler

"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."

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"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."

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"Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?"

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"Your insight is your asset the edge you require to succeed."

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"Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq."

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"It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience."

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"Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life."

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"For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question."

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"You have to be smart to get what you want."

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"Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions."

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"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."

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"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."
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"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."
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"It is not a fragrant world."
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"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."
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"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
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"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."
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"The more you reason the less you create."
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"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
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"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
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