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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

Greatness, Patriotism, Other

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

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

Broken, New, Busted

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

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

Wisdom, Necessary, Timely

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

Coherent, Larger

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

Year, Take, Damage

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

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

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair. Leo Fender

Thought, Design, Should

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

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, Threads, Snapped

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

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

I think, in general, medicine in the 21st century will switch from healing the sick to upgrading the healthy... If you find ways to repair the memory damaged by Alzheimer's disease or dementia and so forth, it is very likely that the same methods could be used to upgrade the memory of completely healthy people. Yuval Noah Harari

Memory, I Think, Very

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

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

Maintain, Rebuild, Upgrade

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant. Saint Basil

Virtues, Quick, Rather

Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial the inner chatter down. Kris Carr

Night, Rest, Chatter

The best time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. Brad D. Smith

Roof, Best Time, Shining

A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system. Janet Yellen

Crisis, Financial Crisis

Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car. Hans Vestberg

Buy, Owner, Shop

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have. Jeffrey Kluger

Work, Broken, About

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