To be always firm must be to be often obstinate. When properly to relax is the trial of judgment.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
There are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
And for the love of God, do you at least remember what you were doing the day they were passing out common sense? Maybe you were running late cos you couldn't find the right thong for those low-rider jeans you love. Maybe you were bopping along to whatever boy band makes your heart race and you just drove on by. I don't know, I'm just guessing. But one thing's sure. You wound up at the dumb-dumb store and put about as much of that in the car as you could fit, didn't you?
The heresy of heresies was common sense.
And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four?
Or that the force of gravity works?
Or that the past is unchangeable?
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?
To be always firm must be to be often obstinate. When properly to relax is the trial of judgment.
You have your mother’s common sense but your father’s devilment. I see them fighting. Let your mother win.
Explanation:
Says to Thomas Shelby.
Don't try to make sense out of it, not now, cos it doesn't make sense. I just know if you start a job then finish it.
— I don't know, Wade. I think we're asking for trouble hanging around like this. I mean, what about common sense? I guess that's something those "brainiacs" wouldn't understand.
— They're scientists. Common sense just gets in their way.
You'd have made a fine push man, you know just how to work on peoples' weak spots. <...> I've been studying your pitch, it's not bad, you've got technique, but you know what's wrong? You're too clever, Adam. You got no room in your head for intelligence. But if you were intelligent, you'd be able to see that you started something you can't control. You think you're the boss now? Wake up, boy, that mob's the boss.
Sometimes we should be hesitant, but I'm not at all
Just feelin more confident
Just using my common sense
Just trust in it, I'm lovin it.
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