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It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.

— Albert Einstein Disputed

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Source, in full

No known source; it appears to be a paraphrase of the last sentence of Einstein's "An Ideal of Service to Our Fellow Man". Earliest known attribution is in the Washington Afro-American, AFRO Magazine Section, September 21, 1954, p. 2

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