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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

Waratah anemone. Flowerpot Point, Blackmans Bay. May 2013. Sunday Stealing: The Meme From Memphis (part one) Be honest, who texted you last? My darling wife. Do you sleep with the bedroom door open or closed? Closed. If Ezra asks for it open though, I am prepared to compromise. Do you drink tea? Only when I am feeling unwell. Do you have plans for tomorrow? I always have plans. There are a few things in the calendar. What’s worse: dry skin or chapped lips? Chapped lips are not pleasant, but from afar dry skin looks very unpleasant. Would you be surprised if Facebook started charging? Very much so, as its revenue base is rooted in advertising space. You would be killing the goose that laid the golden egg! Would you rather go to Canada or California on vacation? Hungary. Well, if it is down to those two, bring on Canada, aye. How many social media sites are you registered with? Pretty much all of them. Are you wearing jeans, shorts, sweatpants or pajama pant...

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Ocellate seastar. Flowerpot Point, Blackmans Bay. May 2013. Wordless Wednesday. Ocellate seastars making love. Flowerpot Point, Blackmans Bay. May 2013.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Rock, as viewed from above. Long Beach, Sandy Bay. April 2012. For today's Sunday Top Five I thought that I'd visit the subject of orations. Yes, today I tackle My Top Five Six Favourite Speeches From History! 399 BCE: The Apology of Socrates , Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates, who was defending himself against charges of corrupting the young, refusing to worship the gods, and creating new deities. 1851: Ain't I A Woman? , delivered by abolitionist Sojourner Truth at a Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. 1933: The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself , from the first inaugural address of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the heart of the Great Depression. 1949: The Light on the Hill by Australia Prime Minister Ben Chifley, paying tribute to the country's labour movement. 1956: On the Personality Cult and its Consequences by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, critical of the regime of Stalin. Also known as the "Secret Speech...