2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 295:Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine ....
2008, Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian, 25 Mar 2008:In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.