Quote of the Day (Anatole France, on Acts and Ideas)

“It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.” —French novelist Anatole France (1844-1924), The Literary Life (1888-1892)

Quote of the Day (George Orwell, on the Brain and a New Idea)

"Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea." —George Orwell, Coming Up for Air  (1939)