A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Samuel Johnson

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Deviation Happiness Nature

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.

Amos Tversky

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.

Edward Jenner

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

Edward Jenner

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.

Mart Crowley

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Tryon Edwards

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.

Regina Maria Roche

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.

Brian Tracy

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Joey Skaggs

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 hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.