“Would you consider ‘guilty-ish’?” – Defense attorney to judge

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

 26 April

‘If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.’

- Erica Jong

“Visual reality is in itself a carefully constructed optical illusion.” - Anonymous

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

April 26

'I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.'

- Abraham Lincoln

'Make yourself comfortable with ambiguity.'

- Anonymous 

“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet shall my love for you abide, says the Lord…” – The Bible

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

25 April

“'Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you.' This is the miracle of life.” 

- Maureen Hawkins

"Needed: more teats, less piglets." - Anonymous

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

April 25

Draining the President’s attention and energy was a virtually endless stream of office seekers. ‘Too many pegs and not enough holes to put them in,’ he observed wryly. When Lincoln got back to Washington from the Gettysburg cemetery dedication he contracted a mild form of smallpox. Where were the office seekers, he quipped? Now he had something he could give everybody!

‘Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.’

- Max Eastman

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“Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” - Anonymous

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

24 April

The Confederacy’s gamble to invade the North during the Civil War for a second [and, as chance would have it, final] time was costly indeed; during the three days of the grisly Battle of Gettysburg 17 of the Confederacy’s 52 generals had become casualties. Such battle-tested leadership could never be replaced. The fabled Army of Northern Virginia had suffered a loss of leadership which represented a near mortal wound.

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

April 24

'I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.'

- Abraham Lincoln

‘The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.’

- Maureen Dowd

"Excellence is the best deterrent to sexism and racism." - Oprah Winfrey

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

23 April

“Someone asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.” - Gloria Steinem