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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Here are a few off the top of my head (though I looked up the original kanji for some of the Japanese ones)…

    To enjoy life’s immensity, you do not need many things.

    • Ryōkan, a Japanese poet

    Ain’t no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too.

    • Bubbles, from the last episode of The Wire

    Honor is dead, but I’ll see what I can do.

    • Kaladin, from The Stormlight Archive Book 2 by Brandon Sanderson

    Beware the difference between intelligibility and correctness.

    • Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Success consists of moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

    • Winston Churchill

    猿も木から落ちる (Saru mo ki kara ochiru)

    Even monkeys fall from trees.

    • Anonymous, traditional Japanese saying

    正勝吾勝 (Makatsu agatsu)

    True victory is victory over one’s self.

    • Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido