"To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble."

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Source : Lew Wallace (2010). “Ben-Hur: A Story of the Christ”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

Lew Wallace

#Humble Quotes #Reform Quotes #Cups Quotes

“One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available.”
“More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!”
“It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.”
“If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.”
“When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .”
“Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.”
“Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to be fancy, as long as it's fresh and simple. The simpler it is, the more fancy it actually comes out tasting.”

Source : "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.
“The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoirÂ Late, Late at NightÂ reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent VibrationÂ is the result. Iâ€™m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. Iâ€™ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe Iâ€™m on the right track.”

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