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The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.... That's not the way the world really works anymore.. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."

Ron Suskind

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

Ron Suskind

What you've got is everything—and I mean everything—being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.

Ron Suskind

Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.

Ron Suskind

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Ron Suskind

Ron Suskind

Ron Suskind

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Born: November 20, 1959 (age 65)

Bio: Ronald Steven "Ron" Suskind is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and best-selling author.

Known for:

Confidence Men (2011)
A Hope in the Unseen (1998)

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