It Is What It Is

If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.
—     Lev Grossman
[… To all the Global Climate Change deniers.  —   KMAB]
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Looking For The Needles In The Haystacks

We’re rich in data – but the returns are diminishing rapidly, because after a certain point the more information you have, the harder it becomes to extract meaning from it.  Ironically, an excess of information resists analysis and comprehension in much the same way a lack of it does.  As a result, the more that new technology floods our world with complex information, the more we end up calling on a much older field of human endeavor, one that has always been devoted to making complexity comprehensible and extracting meaning from chaos, namely, art.  Particularly the visual arts.
—    Lev Grossman
From the article: “What’s this all about?“
In the July 6 – 13 issue of “Time Magazine“
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Dared To Love

What I would really like said about me is that I dared to love.
By love I mean that condition in the human spirit so profound, it encourages us to develop courage and build bridges, and then to trust those bridges and cross the bridges in attempts to reach other human beings.
—  Maya Angelou
Quoted by:  Lev Grossman
“Milestones” column sub-titled “Legendary Voice“
“Time Magazine” dated 9 June 2014
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