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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. -- Wendell Phillips
Nature ever provides for her own exigencies. -- Seneca the Younger
I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature. -- Philip Roth
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious. -- Nathan Hale
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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. -- James Monroe
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. -- Sigmund Freud
The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. -- Germaine Greer
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. -- Roger Brooke Taney
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. -- Edgard Varese
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities. -- Alexander Hamilton
In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit. -- Alton Tobey
Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now. -- Joel Miller
We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies. -- William Gilmore Simms
The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly. -- Tobias Dantzig

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