Eric Greitens

I think there are a couple of key lessons that come from Judaism that shaped my life. One of them is the idea we have a duty to repair the world, and all of us should play a role in our lives in trying to repair the world and to make the world better for the next generation.

American Politician

Audre Lorde

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

American Poet

William Butler Yeats

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Irish Poet

Joanna Lumley

We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.

English Actress

Sam Worthington

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

Australian Actor

Robert Towne

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

American Actor

Joseph Hall

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

English Clergyman

George Washington

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

American President

Frederick Douglass

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

American Author

John F. Kennedy

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Use 'repair' for fixing physical objects, not abstract concepts.

Physical Fix

'Repair' often suggests a professional or technical fix, more than a quick or temporary one.

Professional Context

The noun 'repair' usually implies work done by someone skilled, not by yourself.

Not DIY

Talking about 'repairs' often implies there will be a cost involved.

Expense Implication

Use 'repair' metaphorically to talk about improving behavior or relationships.

Behavioral Change

'Repair' can imply working to regain a lost positive status or opinion.

Reputation Recovery

'Repair' in the archaic sense is mainly found in literature and adds a formal, old-fashioned tone.

Literary Use

The archaic 'repair' describes movement with a sense of purpose or intent.

Movement to Place

 Our brain's ability to repair itself, known as brain plasticity, permits areas surrounding a brain lesion to take over some functions during the recovery process. Scientists have been conducting experiments using new forms of technology, which they believe may encourage brain plasticity in people with aphasia.

Aphasia: The disorder...

 but so many embraced me with open arms anyway. I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it. All I could do was try to build a new life and find a way somehow to repair some of the damage. People had every reason to doubt my sincerity,

I grew up in the...

 by providing the building blocks for new tissue in the form of amino acids. Adequate protein intake, along with naturally occurring hormones, like insulin-like growth factor and testosterone, help shift the body into a state where tissue is repaired and grown.

What makes muscles grow?...

 The top layer, called the epidermis, consists mostly of hardened cells, called keratinocytes, and provides protection. Since its outer layer is constantly being shed and renewed, it's pretty easy to repair. But sometimes a wound penetrates into the dermis,

How a wound heals itself...

 Now that you know whether its answers are true or false, ask the same alien whether the center overlord is Arr. The process of elimination will identify the remaining one. The satisfied overlords help you repair your ship and you prepare for takeoff.

Can you solve the three...

 history of the speakers so for example we have these two words that mean to fail and to raise in the modern version of the language they actually derive from older words that mean to try and to repair focusing on just the first one

What does it take to...

 The rise in sleep-inducing chemicals, like adenosine and melatonin, send us into a light doze that grows deeper, making our breathing and heart rate slow down and our muscles relax. This non-REM sleep is when DNA is repaired

What would happen if you...

 also known as an acute exposure. Acute exposures overwhelm the body's natural ability to repair the damage. This can trigger cancers, cellular dysfunction, and potentially even death. Fortunately, acute exposures are rare,

Is radiation dangerous?...

 people who think fountain pen maintenance and repair and customizing our boring simply haven't played with it enough fountain pens are like people everyone has a unique personality

Fountain Pens Are...

 So important is their dam to them, that if they detect the slightest leak, usually by hearing the sound of trickling water, they start repair work immediately.

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