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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

Children, Parenting, Men, Broken, Strong

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, Time, Sun, 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, America, Nation

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

Broken, You, New, Fix, Mighty, Buying

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

God, Wise, Rest, Hands, Honest, Us

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

Wisdom, Rebuilding, Neglect, Necessary

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

Healthy, Leaving, Incarceration, Prisons

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, Healing, People, Think, Medicine

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

Roads, Bridges, Rebuild, Upgrade

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

Impossible, Wrong, Difference, Go, Out

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Man, Rest, House, Now, Watch

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change, Character, Circumstances, Defect

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

Done, Sometimes, Year, Years, Take, Ten

I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous. Patrick Duffy

Morning, Time, Coffee, Roads, Wife, Sit

It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair. Campbell Brown

Car, Fall, Think, American, Too Much

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

Service, Church, Place, Admire, Need

Whatever final judgment awaits 'Bush v. Gore' in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Work, Confidence, History, Faith, Good

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

Roots, Redwood, Begin, Willing, Damage

You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either. Michael E. Gerber

Work, Business, Time, Accounting, You

Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart. Michio Kaku

Aging, You, Why, Cells, Heal, Level

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. Samuel Johnson

Life, Friendship, Man, Alone, Find, New

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, Victim, Injury, Rehabilitation

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, Learning, Power, Broken, Sibling

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

Nature, World, View, Place, You, Build

I am glad that our country is starting to have a serious conversation about how to repair our broken immigration system - it is long overdue. Cory Gardner

I Am, Broken, Conversation, Long, System

My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control. Jon Katz

Dog, Best, Animal, Control, Beyond, Most

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