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• Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

  Franz Boas

  Opportunity, Looks, Path

  Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.69, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth

  Bruno Frey

  Incentives, Today, Pressure

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• Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Practice, Long

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• When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from the colour of the song while pouring your heart into it.

  Kim Tae-yeon

  Song, Heart, Skills

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• Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

  Marya Mannes

  Men, Our Society, Fellowship

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Way

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• Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greatness, Deserving It, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.15

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• This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.

  Maurice Duplessis

  Challenges, Unions, Break

  Response to the 1949 asbestos miners' strike on CBC radio,

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• Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

  Stefan Zweig

  People, Lines, Firsts

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Ideas, People, Islam

  "Imam's Sahife", Volume 5 (p. 468), January 15, 1979.

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• Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reality, Love Is, Essentials

  "Interview with Marianne Williamson About ‘A Course in Miracles’". Interview with Gabby Bernstein, gabbybernstein.com. September 5, 2013.

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• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

  Terry Eagleton

  Everyday, Ordinary, Literature

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Hurt, Children, Worry

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• I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.

  William O. Douglas

  Thinking, Views, Issues

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• We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Truth, Party, Character

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• The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

  Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

  Nature, Men, Law

  Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1854). “Hufeland's art of prolonging life”, p.99

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• A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Expression, Differences, Energy

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• Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Order, Years, Form

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.78, Enhanced Media Publishing

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