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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

Parenting, Strong, Broken

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy

Wisdom, Roof, Shining

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. Alexis de Tocqueville

Patriotism, Greatness, Other

Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you. Billy Mays

Broken, New, Busted

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. Norm Dicks

Environmental, Harm

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves. Martin O'Malley

Rebuild, Upgrade, Maintain

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. Douglas Adams

Go, Might, Goes

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness. A. S. Byatt

Maybe, Deferred, Respecting

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. George Washington

Rest, Standard, Which

What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives. Francis Spufford

Bicycle, Flight, Next

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. Richard Whately

Wisdom, Necessary, Timely

The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Church, Admire, Vehicles

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury. Lewis B. Smedes

Justice, Rehabilitation

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. Chinua Achebe

Year, Damage, Take

The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months. Dave Bautista

Brutal, Torn, Months

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner. John Muir

Damage, Redwood, Sprout

We need to work together to embrace and repair our land, repair our power systems, and repair ourselves. It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums, and other tributes to all of our collective failures. Majora Carter

Embrace, Other, Failures

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever. Amy Adams

Been, Standard, Held

I wash my face at night for sure. If I've had makeup, on I wash it twice. And now that I'm old, I use the Rapid Repair moisturizer, which has all the stuff in it - retinol, alpha, whatever, all of it. And I do use a Neutrogena eye cream, which I didn't used to. Jennifer Garner

Makeup, Use, Rapid

There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life. Jennifer Doudna

Hope, Research, Muscular

The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment. Emile Durkheim

Political, Sound, Roles

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. Christopher Alexander

Larger, Coherent

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair. Dorothea Dix

Indulgence, Truest, Convicts

Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and healthy once again. Susan Burton

Damage, Address

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads. Mary Harris Jones

Hands, Snapped, Threads

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. Billy Connolly

Marriage, Bicycle, Again

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