“ The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
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“ It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. ”
- Richard Whately- Copy
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“ So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. ”
- Alexander Eliot- Copy
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“ The important thing is that the worst is over,... Now comes the reconstruction. ”
- Vicente Fox- Copy
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“ Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ I thank God that after two decades of pain, invasion, today these people are moving forward to rebuilding Afghanistan. ”
- Mohammad Khatami- Copy
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“ All of those ideas, the politics of isolation and assassination, must give way to reconciliation and reconstruction... we must pursue good neighbor policies. ”
- Jesse Jackson- Copy
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“ To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. ”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger- Copy
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“ This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. ”
- Adam Clarke- Copy
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“ There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Today's medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. That's been tried too often. Today's medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation. ”
- Maurice Delort- Copy
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“ If we would simply take about a fourth of that and all of the various pork projects that were in the highway bill, and redirect some of that to the Gulf region, we would have billions of dollars to help rebuild that area and... not waste money that would otherwise be spent on a lot of things that don't have much to do with rebuilding highways and bridges,… ”
- Jon Kyl- Copy
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“ The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ My argument to you is that this is not new construction. This is reconstruction. We can talk about how much of the building we leave so we can qualify for reconstruction, but the truth is, there is no definition we know of that says when a reconstruction becomes new construction. ”
- Larry Williams- Copy
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“ In depression... faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come — not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute.... It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. ”
- William Styron- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. ”
- Joseph Hall- Copy
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“ Credit is like a looking glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again, but if once cracked can never be repaired. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience — if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen. ”
- J. C. Macaulay- Copy
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“ It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
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“ Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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