The Montage Is the Montageili

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"We need to make sure that we don't get like, these vicarious feelings of goodness when you actually didn't do shi. Because that is the most contemptible kind of human character," he said. "And i think what's interesting about what he's saying here is, first of all, we're all tempted in this direction, and that we really need to watch out for."

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