The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases
Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end
If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.
Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.
Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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 and therefrom acquire perfect faith. But the same tool has become the means of deviation for the rest of them.
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Manage by exception. Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.
a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.
The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i. e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.
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 a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.
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 those untrained in the scientific method, who thus turn to the rigid certainty of the Bible instead. There is something comfortable about a view that allows for no deviation and that spares you the painful necessity of having to think.
Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.
Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.
