Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or …

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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2015). The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design, p.129, W. W. Norton & Company
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