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Replacing Success with Service

Writer Philip Yancey notes that toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein removed the portraits of two scientists--Newton and Maxwell--from his wall.

He replaced those with portraits of Gandhi and Schweitzer. Einstein explained that it was time to replace the image of success with the image of service.

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