#transgressions

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#beauty #coercion #even #form #freedom

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. ↗

— Tiger Woods

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