“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”

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Raymond Chandler 124
Novelist, screenwriter 1888–1959

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“If any of you have ever looked at your FBI file, you discover that intelligence agencies in general are extremely incompetent.”

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