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Michael Ignatieff Quotes: The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.
         

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.


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