Deviation Quotes

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. — Theodor Adorno
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary… — Thomas Brooks
Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering. — Sun Tzu
There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take… — Sun Tzu
Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who… — Tom Platz
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. — H E Bates
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell
Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path. — Mahatma Gandhi
Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God, from the study of things… — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more… — Charles Baudelaire
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than… — Robert E. Lee
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness. — Samuel Johnson
Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many… — Joshua Reynolds
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from… — Aristotle
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they… — Charles Kettering
Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other… — Alan Dershowitz
Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. — Janet Yellen
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures,… — Margaret Thatcher

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