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What do you know?

The following is an incident about an engine failure in a giant ship. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to ...bottom. Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars. "What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!" So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill." The man sent a bill that read:...

21 Things Will Smith Wants to Share

21 Things Will Smith Wants to Share

HOW TO BE A MAN- RUDYARD KIPLING

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream – and not make dreams your master; If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat these two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are ...

I wish you enough

It's hard to understand" by Bob Perks It's hard to understand sometimes, but easy enough to see. I try to make sense of things and fail to comprehend the magnitude, width and depth of all that is mine. Still with all of that clearly in front of me, I find myself whining still, because I don't have this or that. It wouldn't take much to see those around me lacking even the stuff that I enjoy and I am nowhere near a wealthy man by the world's standards. I have a simple house, a car, food, a wife and family who love me. I couldn't boast of a yacht, six figure income, tailored suits, shoes made in Italy, or more bathrooms than bedrooms in my home. Some of you may think that's not much. Still others may read that and say, I rent a small apartment with one bedroom that sleeps six. I can't afford to buy my child a toy boat to play with and my income is below the poverty line. As for clothes and shoes I thank God for the Salvation Army and my church. ...