"One must state it plainly," he said. "Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on."
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10 of the more memorable quotes from journalist and author Christopher Hitchens
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