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title: "4 Earliest Form Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [“The earliest form of natural selection was simply a selection of stable forms and a rejection of unstable ones. There is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-earliest-form-of-natural-selection-was-simply-a-selection-of/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bulfinch/the-earliest-form-in-which-romances-appear-is-that-of-a-rude-kind-of/)

[Thomas Bulfinch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bulfinch/)

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> [There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-moore-cross/there-was-certainly-an-old-law-code-which-stands-behind-the-earliest/)

[Frank Moore Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-moore-cross/)

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> [“If a group of atoms in the presence of energy falls into a stable pattern it will tend to stay that way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/if-a-group-of-atoms-in-the-presence-of-energy-falls-into-a-stable/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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