“Let us make a dent in the universe.” - Steve Jobs

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

July 3

“The Battle of Gettysburg culminated on July 3 with Pickett’s charge. Leaving the cover of nearly woods, close to 15,000 battle-hardened veterans just beyond the range of what proved to be withering Yankee artillery began marching in formation toward Cemetery Ridge a little more than a mile away across a vast open field. The field itself was relatively flat but became increasingly steep the closer they got to their destination. Also, as they got closer and closer, relentless Yankee artillery tore gaping holes in those formations, yet on they continued to march. Only when they got within a few hundred yards did they break into a run. Some actually made it all the way to Cemetery Ridge and engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, but by then their original numbers had been blasted off the field and were a mere few hundred. The break in the Yankee line on Cemetery Ridge, such as it was, was quickly filled in, the few Rebels who reached that far were either killed or taken prisoner. The Battle of Gettysburg was effectively over.” - Arnold Kunst

“A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude.” - Anonymous

From “Me Too 365” by Arnold Kunst

2 July

How to Handle a Woman. One Right Way: Put a post-it where only she will find it: “I’m glad you’re in my life.” [As an aside, if you’re not glad she’s in your life, why did you let her in in the first place? Who are you kidding?]

“If you cannot confront death fearlessly, you will never revel in life thoroughly.” - Arnold Kunst

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

2 July

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Tragedy

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

July 2

“The Battle of Gettysburg pitted 76,000 Rebels under the leadership of the dazzling Robert E. Lee against 92,000 Yankees under the leadership of the newly–appointed George Gordon Meade. The Rebels had taken the town, but the Yankees had seized the high ground to the south of the town. The battle itself, lasting from 1 – 3 July, 1863, was a prolonged series of Rebel attempts to break the Yankee line and seize that high ground. Lee had defeated that same Northern army in December 1862 at Fredericksburg and again – the most spectacular success of Lee’s entire career – in May 1863 at Chancellorsville. His fabled Army of Northern Virginia had merely to walk on water one more time. But it was not to be - each successive Rebel attempt to break the Union line ended in failure.” - Arnold Kunst 

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“True love has no expiration date.” - Anonymous

From “Me Too 365” by Arnold Kunst

1 July

Want her to bring you breakfast in bed on Sunday morning? Bring her breakfast in bed on Saturday morning. She’ll get the idea.

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” – B.F. Skinner

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

1 July

Nothing happens to the loser which does not represent an outward manifestation of his own self image.

Nothing happens to the winner which does not represent an outward manifestation of his own self image.

Risk it.

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

July 1

“The decision by the Confederacy’s high command to invade the North in the summer of 1863 was a gamble that held out the ultimate glittering prize. A Confederate victory on Northern soil would be just the thing to induce England and/or France to grant formal recognition to that thing which Lincoln saw as a complete fiction: the Confederate States of America. And, of course, with that recognition hopefully would come financial aid on more or less favorable terms, maybe even a military alliance that would break the pesky, ever-tightening Yankee blockade of Southern ports [and resume the flow of cotton to all those hungry European factories]. In short, a victory on Northern soil could easily translate into Southern independence.” - Arnold Kunst

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat.

And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” - William Shakespeare