If in the first act you have a gun hanging on the wall, then in the last act it must fire.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian playwright and short story master whose works - 'The Cherry Orchard,' 'Three Sisters,' 'Uncle Vanya,' and hundreds of stories - revolutionized both drama and fiction by rejecting artificial plot in favor of the texture of ordinary life. A practicing physician, he brought clinical precision to the observation of human behavior.
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