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"You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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