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Tony Randall

Tony Randall was an American actor, comedian, and producer renowned for his diverse performances in film, television, and theater. He achieved widespread fame for his roles in iconic sitcoms like 'The Odd Couple' and 'The Defenders'. Over a career spanning five decades, Randall earned numerous awards and a cherished place in the hearts of audiences around the globe. more

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Book:A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry
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“Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.”

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Book:The Conscience of a Conservative
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“A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.”

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Book:Minority Report
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