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October 14, 2022

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Friday, October 14, 2022

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Albert Einstein

The month after Albert Einstein’s death in April of 1955, an interview with the famed scientist appeared in "Life" magazine. A journalist and editor of the magazine, William Miller, had stopped by Einstein’s home a few months earlier with his son Pat in tow. Pat wondered what life advice Einstein had to share, and the physicist responded with this piece of advice. It’s more fulfilling to give as much as you can — becoming a person of value — than to take what you can to become a person of "success."

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Fill in the blank: "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few ___." - Epictetus

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