If you try to imagine, as nearly as you can, what an amount of misery, pain and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course...
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...you will admit that it would be much better if, on the earth as little as on the moon, the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state. -Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Sufferings of the World (1851)
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It seems like the sun is going to burn us all up, so we got that goin for us lol