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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By

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The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

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David Hume

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

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