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In cases where everything is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Medical School. Corner of Campbell and Bathurst Streets, Hobart. September 2013. We're hitting the road early, so no list today!

It's always better to leave the party early.

The sisters. Bruny Island, Tasmania. September 2013. Bruny Island Three Hour Cruise This Sunday Top Five is really A List Of Things I Really Can't Bring Myself To Care About! TV Professional sport Celebrities Stuff (things) Stuff (He said/ she said)

Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.

Cold seagull. Constitution Dock, Hobart waterfront. July 2013. Sunday Top Five Dear oh dear. Bugger me.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Free advertising. St Davids Park, Hobart. July 2013. No Sunday Top Five today. I'm on strike for Fathers Day.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Art? Runnymeade Street, Battery Point. August 2013. Sunday Top Five ? There are Five Things That I Want On A Sunday Morning : A lie in. A sleep in. To be left alone. Peace and quiet. No noise.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Starfish. Flowerpot Point, Blackmans Bay. July 2013. A horrible Sunday Top Five today: Five Words That Fit Most Appropriately Into The Sentence "Martin Clunes' Extraordinarilly [...BLANK...] Head"! Abominable Unpleasant Beastly Abominable Grotesque

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Cat's tails? Gellibrand Point, South Arm Peninsula. June 2013 . Sunday Top Five ? Okay. The Five Best Things About Our Car Smash Yesterday! 1. Nobody got hurt. 2. A fantastic lesson regarding the importance of car seats and restraints (where nobody got hurt). 3. The bloke that smashed into the back of us (and completely wrecked the car) took full responsibility. This *should* ease the whole insurance song and dance. 4. Henry, Ezra and I riding in back of a police care. 5. Finding a pumpkin in the back of said police car.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

Spikey plant. East Derwent Highway, Lindisfarne. July 2013. Sunday Top Five today sees Henry and I compile our Top Five Tracks From The Late Great Dusty Springfield (This Sunday)! The Look Of Love You Don't Have to Say You Love Me I Only Want to Be with You Breakfast in Bed What Have I Done To Deserve This (with the Pet Shop Boys)

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Hobart in the Winter. Geilston Bay. July 2013. Sunday Top Five ? TODAY'S Sunday Top Five? How about The Five Things I've Heard About All This Week ? Minecraft. Zombies. Minecraft. Moshi Monsters. Minecraft.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Happy birthday! Geilston Bay Community Centre, Geilston Bay. July 2013. Sunday Top Five ? How about July 19 Through The Years! #5! #4! #3! #2! #1! Cake drafting. Geilston Bay Community Centre, Geilston Bay. July 2013. The cake! Geilston Bay Community Centre, Geilston Bay. July 2013.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Here comes the sun. Sullivans Cove, Hobart. June 2013. Sunday Top Five ? Crabs, Beautiful Crabs! Mr Krabs Portunus pelagicus Scylla serrata Ranina ranina Pseudocarcinus gigas

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Creepy crawly. Russell Falls, Mount Field National Park. April 2013. This Sunday Top Five I hand over to Ezra, who gives us Ezra's Top Five Queen Tracks! Bohemian Rhapsody We Are the Champions Fat Bottomed Girls Don't Stop Me Now Under Pressure

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

Rope. Sullivans Cove, Hobart. June 2013. Sunday Top Five ? Of course. Here, have my Top Five Records By Paul McCartney After He Left That Band That He Was In Before He Was In Wings! Maybe I'm Amazed , Paul McCartney Let Me Roll It , Paul McCartney & Wings Jet , Paul McCartney & Wings Mull of Kintyre , Wings Coming Up , Paul McCartney.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Nice day for a swim? Fossil Cove/ Soldiers Point, Tinderbox. May 2013. Sunday Top Five ? Anagrams For What? Cracker Ranch Enzyme. Crazy Manner Checker Chance Remark Cry Zen Cancer Czar Reek Hymn A Charmer Neck Cry Zen

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Mount Wellington in Winter. As seen from Battery Point. June 2013. Can you guess today's Sunday Top Five ? Phaseolus vulgaris. Cicer arietinum Pisum sativum. Lens culinaris. Pisum sativum.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Crane in the mud. Geilston Bay Creek, Geilston Bay. May 2013. A linktastic Sunday Top Five today, with my Top Five Songs Recently Reconsidered By My Good Self As Actually Much Better Than I Ever Gave Them Credit For At The Time! Eclectic? Of course! Ratcat, That Ain't Bad The Housemartins, Caravan of Love The Fixx, One Thing Leads To Another Cheap Trick, Surrender Divinyls, Boys In Town

If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Jen looking out to sea. Clifton Beach. May 2013. Sunday Top Five ? Okay, here is Five Things That I Simply Must Have On A Pizza! Tomato paste! Garlic! Oregano! Basil! Capsicum!

A true initiation never ends.

Not snorkelling weather. Clifton Beach. May 2013. Sunday Top Five ? That's right, here are Five Words That We Really Need To Start Using In English! Pelinti ( Buli ): You know when you're in a rush to eat a hot pie and you have to open your mouth and tilt your head to avoid burning yourself? Ghanaians have a word for that. Myötähäpeä ( Finnish ): the nicer relative of Schadenfreude . Think, "vicarious embarrassment.” Above us the waves. Clifton Beach. May 2013. Layogenic ( Tagalog ): You know how sometimes you can see something (or someone) from far away and it/ they look pretty good, but when you get a close look it's not quite the case? That's layogenic . Cavoli Riscaldati ( Italian ): a very bad move: trying to revive an unworkable relationship. It literally translates to "reheated cabbage." Litost ( Czech ): I'll defer to Milan Kundera on this one: “a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.” Th...

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Lonely water tower. Boat Harbour, Tasmania's North West Coast. April 2013. A special 'hints and tips' Sunday Top Five today: Five Things That I Have Learned That Are Worth Reminding People Of! It is a lot more difficult to get rid of calories than it is to avoid consuming them in the first place. The ability to be happy is nothing more than working out how to deal with things changing. Bad moods are a reality of everybody’s life, and trying to force them away makes them run deeper and last longer. If everyone in the movie or TV show you’re watching is good-looking, it isn’t worth watching. If anything is worth spending a bit of money on, it’s a high-quality mattress. You spend at least a third of your life using it!

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Formally a crab. Bellerive Bluff, Bellerive. April 2013. A vintage Sunday Top Five today that I know the whole World has been waiting for. Yes, it is My Top Five Favourite Tracks By English Post-Punk Weirdos, The Fall! Blindness Totally Wired Theme From Sparta FC Reformation The Classical