We who lived in the concentration camps can remember
the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their
last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer
sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
The last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set
of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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