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Offline Kevin Sowten

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A moral - source unknown
« on: April 16, 2013, 14:16:37 PM »
Sometime, when you're feeling important,
Sometime, when your ego's in bloom;
Sometime, when you take it for granted
You're the best qualified man in the room;
 
Sometime, when you feel that your going
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow this simple instruction
And see how it humbles the soul.
 
Take a bucket and fill it with water;
Put your hand in it, up to the wrist;
Pull it out; and the hole that's remaining
Is a measure of how you'll be missed.
 
You may splash all you please, when you enter,
You can stir up the water galore,
But stop and you'll find in a minute
That it looks quite the same as before.
 
The moral in this quaint example
Is do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself, but remember-- 
There's NO indispensable man!

Offline emekliyim

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Re: A moral - source unknown
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2013, 22:28:57 PM »
Like it!

Offline Mark G

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Re: A moral - source unknown
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2013, 23:15:42 PM »
Absolutely brilliant!

What a great lesson about life and self-importance.

Offline Hellzbellz

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Re: A moral - source unknown
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2013, 05:58:48 AM »
Echoes what i have always thought, no person is indispensable. Have seen through my days of working before moving to Turkey many people thinking they are untouchable in their work, if only they had heeded the saying about treating people right on the way up because you will surely meet them again on the way back down.

Offline Colwyn

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Re: A moral - source unknown
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2013, 10:00:30 AM »
Source: Saxon White Kessinger (1956)




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