Nikki Stone 1
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Wed Mar-22-06 12:26 PM
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| Did this quote originally come from the Wa Po (reality-based community ) |
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''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
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Wed Mar-22-06 12:28 PM
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| 1. There's a whole wikipedia entry for it |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_communityThe source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush:...
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Wed Mar-22-06 12:28 PM
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| 2. I believe that was from the NYT magazine's Suskind piece |
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