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I hate atheists because they want to become gods themselves and think they understand things that no one understands.

— Mauno Koivisto

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Source: Koivisto in an interview on a Russian radio channel on 26 June 2002. (in Finnish) Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. 3 July 2002. Retrieved 2nd November 2024.
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