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The anthropologist Gregory Bateson once said, “You can’t have a new idea ’til you’ve got rid of an old one.

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John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English comedian and actor best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for co-writing the TV series Fawlty Towers in which he played Basil Fawlty.

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You can’t have a new idea ’til you’ve got rid of an old one.

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