It Is What It Is

May it please milord Hero, the world is not what we wish it to be.  It is what it is.  No, I have over-assumed.  Perhaps it is indeed what we wish it to be.  Either way, it is what it is.

-- Robert Anson Heinlein (1907 - 1988) popular and influential author of science fiction, Glory Road (1963), Star, Empress of the 20 Universes, Ch. 10