Everything can be taken from an individual, but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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The light that shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. The light that fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and senses.