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“I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...”

Source : "Imperial racism". "The Story of Africa" by BBC World Service, www.bbc.co.uk. February 19, 2007.
“I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.”
“What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.”
“Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of the plant or animal we realize what can and what cannot be done towards modification or improvement.”
“There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.”

Source : James Martineau (1880). “Hours of Thought on Sacred Things”
“Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.”
“An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.”
“I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.”

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