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• A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.
  -- Stephen Crane...
• A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.
  -- Stephen Crane, "War is Kind", 1899...
• Quote #237 A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!
  "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation....
• One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists.
  But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist....
• One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists.
  But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist....
• Principal Skinner, wait! *I* created the universe! Give _me_ the gift certificate!
  -- Lisa, "Treehouse of Horror VII...
• Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me.
  We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts....