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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

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

Samuel Johnson

There was a lot of water damage but we could repair it by repainting the walls and replacing the carpets.

Sarah Mansfield

My No. 1 job now is being a grandparent, not repairing lamps or selling power line equipment.

Bob Sowders

I see it everywhere, whether you're an artist selling your goods from the trunk of your car or an auto repair mechanic or folks selling products door-to-door.

Mikel Holt

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

Billy Connolly

What it comes down to is that pipelines are fragile and failures will occur, ... The industry has learned to repair as fast as possible.

Jim Hooper

It will be less expensive to replace the engine than to repair it, And a new water tender can run from $70,000 to $200,000 or more, so it's more cost effective for us to just replace the engine.

Bruce Lewis

The situation is very bad here. Half of the dam was broken last night and we could not repair it.

Constantin Raicea

It would allow the cost of repairing the dams and maintaining them in the future to be spread over a number of years and all the property owners there would pay the assessment annually.

Cathy Riddle

The university has to make decisions about how we use our very, very scarce repair-and-rehabilitation funds.

Kirk White

We feel like we have an advantage over some other companies, because we're taking the aggressive marketing techniques of QAT and applying them to Zero One. QAT deals with the automotive industry. Any car dealer you see, any repair shop you see, that's their client base. And being a part of QAT makes them Zero One Media's client base.

Steve Ateyeh

He could repair everything. He had the brightest smile. There is a new star in heaven tonight.

Dick Wright

Most are rehab projects, and there's going to be something to repair that you're not aware of.

Jon Kaplan

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

When I first got here, he was talking about games from two years ago and mistakes he had made. He's been hammered so hard. It's something that we had to repair and fix, for him to live in the now and forget about the past.

Brandon Doman

Typically, FEMA would cover 75 percent of the cost of repair or replacement.

Terry Lane

If electricity breaks down, you have to repair a power station, you can't just send an e-mail.

Marc Otte

Unfortunately, the TV is out of warranty, so we cannot fund the repair, and the service contract agreement was made with the retailer who is now out of business.

James Harper

We are spending $250 million a year on the Northeast Corridor infrastructure. We are playing catch-up, but we are well on our way to bringing the Northeast Corridor to a state of good repair.

Cliff Black

Maintenance is for the unexpected repair, while capital reserve is for future projects. There is a limit done by formula. The problem for districts is having the money to put in those reserves.

Michael Foster

There are a lot of problems. The act lets landlords off the hook and forces the city to do repairs. It's a terrible incentive. Landlords will never repair anything and then the city will be responsible for collecting the money.

Jordan Barowitz

It turns out that an adult muscle cell's capacity to repair damaged muscle is directly related to where it comes from, and this has implications for the potential use of side population cells in repairing muscle in muscular dystrophy patients.

Gabrielle Kardon

This is not about just removing the awnings. The main focus is repairing the sidewalks, and this comes along with that.

Jan Mcelwrath

The repair involves installing a switch and should take less than an hour.

Karen Lynn

[The Kravis, which was in the middle of a roof repair, escaped serious damage.] There was just a little water here and there, nothing significant, ... Nothing too exciting, which is fine with me.

Jim Mitchell

There are no show stoppers that we've seen out there, ... The issue that may come up is the degree to which feasible repair techniques are available on this mission.

Richard Covey

Our focus is shifting. We're now looking at repair kits ... tin sheets, plastic sheets.

Chris Lom

In 1954, cars were bigger and repairing these little bridges was a nuisance. The big bridge came down in 1954. That would have been the seventh bridge.

Nancy Hill

We're not going to solve this problem with a patchwork approach at the state level. It's a national problem, and the need is to repair the national system. We're not going to erect barriers between states.

Josh Bernstein

It is damaged beyond repair.

Darrell Mackey

I don't know of any good way to repair those things, ... Any way you go, it's going to be a major cost.

Mike Harris

We are working our way north with the repair of our high-voltage transmission system.

Lloyd Coker

We would like to extend our appreciation to the cooperating landowners and the agencies that have provided additional funding to make this project a success so far, ... We are also looking for landowners who are interested in funding for projects to repair the shoreline of Elm Lake itself, or its many tributaries that may have been damaged by heavy rains in May and June.

Tim Wilson

Very mild. Very, very mild over previous years. And that doesn't include any overtime costs or any of the repair bills from the plow trucks.

Joe Camp

We're permitted and licensed for my lamp repair and Tillie's art. It's kind of a two-for-one deal.

Bob Sowders

I tell my clients to never use any de-ice product that contains salt. Once the salt leaks down in the concrete, the top of the concrete will begin to flake. You really can't repair concrete once it has maintained salt damage.

Todd Davis

It cut off people in this area, but they can't repair the road before they ease the pressure on this dam.

Ray Lovell

I fear that a storm which could have cost tens of billions of dollars may cost more than 100 billion to repair. A storm that could have cost us hundreds of lives will probably cost us thousands of lives.

Tom Carper

This is the reason we used asphalt instead of concrete for the road surface. It's easier and less costly to repair asphalt rather than concrete roads.

Joe Agnello

A good example of that would be a derelict building that may need to be torn down. Of course, it will be the owner's choice to either repair the building or remove it.

Rick Fulmer

We were excited to find that the cells responded to the damage by making appropriate new cells that could assist in repair. This study supports the possibility that formation of new myelin and new neurons may contribute to recovery.

Brian Cummings

They damage the fences on a daily basis almost faster than we can repair them. The damaged fences allow the deer to enter. The bear eat the grapes, as do the deer, and they both damage the vines, sometimes killing … old vines.

Paul Maroon

The real problems with the levees are that there's no funding available to maintain or repair them and the permit process is too onerous. It's a three-to-five-year process and it has gotten so bad the only way we can get levee maintenance done is when they fail. That's the only time we can actually fix anything.

Brendon Flynn

The central processing system for injury, repair and fighting disease, infection and organ damage is now known to come from the bone marrow.

George Russell

They thought the system would repair itself in six years, and it hasn't.

Victor Smith

It's a similar situation to many homes in New Orleans. They've got to gut everything inside. They've got to repair the roof. There's a lot of issues.

Paul Hoolahan

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

There are a lot of [repair] bays in the city of Toledo. Everyone is fighting to get customers into their bays.

Tim Price

It will be less expensive to replace the engine than to repair it.

Bruce Lewis

We are not repairing that road because of the imminent danger, perhaps, of the Morita Dam. Because I don't want my people out there repairing the highway, and if the dam could break we could lose more people, so we're awaiting the all clear to do that.

Rodney Haraga

We are sending food to areas that could become cut off and we are moving heavy machinery to repair roads in the event of flooding or landslides.

Jose Ramon Salinas

People are really working their tails off to get production back up and repair Katrina damage.

Tony Lentini

Just the child seeing a parent with a book or a newspaper, or reading a recipe or a book on how to repair a car encourages their children to want to read.

Ginger Williford

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

John Seely Brown

If we are to truly repair America's standing in the world, the Bush administration must hold accountable high-ranking officials who allow the continuing abuse and torture of detainees.

Anthony D. Romero

Some of those vehicles, depending on where they are hit, the cost for repair is going to be substantially greater.

Kip Diggs

We figured that we had to come back to the house, repair the damage, and see its value after that. After we are on the ground for a while, we can decide if it's worth staying or leaving.

Jamie Dell'apa

We're the only people I know that know the number of a couch repair company. They would fly around the house and break stuff. You had to keep them corralled.

Keith Hawk

After Katrina, when people started talking about it costing $250 billion for repair and reconstruction, it made people think about cutting some of the projects that are everywhere.

Glenn Reynolds

That is a private road, so it is not a city-maintained road. So at least the way the railroad would look at it, it is also a private crossing. We don't plow the street, we don't repair the street.

Jim Weber

Never invest you money in anything that eats or needs repairing.

Billy Rose

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.

Johnny Ball

Then (Hurricane) Katrina happened last fall, and most contractors were wanted in the Gulf Coast to repair the refineries there. We'd hoped to do a lot of the work by October 2005. But that got delayed.

Nancy Thonen

We are encouraged by the higher level of inquiries in repair and conversion, driven by the firm offshore market and infrastructure demand.

Henry Ng

Very clearly, Illinois is on the wrong path. Good jobs are leaving. Our education system is in dire need of repair. And you wake up every morning, and what do you see? Another investigation seems to be kicked off into some form of political corruption.

Ron Gidwitz

My issue with this is, this is a $2 million project on a road that doesn't really need much work - except maybe some minor repair. And it's going to take until October to fix. This is going to put a lot of people at a major inconvenience - and a lot of local businesses are going to be affected by this, too.

John Rudolph

Historically, the meticulousness of the users has been much more important than the manufacturer's identity. A good repair or service man is also important, and may not be brand-related.

Tom Cottrell

Changing the statistics doesn't create any jobs, it merely changes the headlines. Sanford seems more concerned with repairing his own political problem than in solving our state's jobs problem.

Oscar Lovelace

That machine has sat and hammered away since 1994 with no major repairs, but we've had to repair something every year now for the last few years, so it was time to either get a new baler for $100,000 or try to do some refurbishing.

Norman Herren

DNA repair stands as the dike between us and the inundation of mutations.

Robert Weinberg

It's very important that we repair this.

Kirk Shireman

Now that we're pretty flush with money we believe it's time to repair some of those cracks in our budgetary foundation so we have a good solid footing to go forward.

Farrell Quinlan

If you have an item you think is OK, but are unsure, you can contact your local thrift store and they can let you know if they have the capability to repair items.

Melissa Temme

Parents should continue using these rear-facing infant car seats, but should not use the carrying handle until a repair kit has been installed.

Ricardo Martinez

A minor repair for us.

Stephanie Stilson

Marriage is a wonderful invention, but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit!

Billy Connelly

We really needed this new school building. The old one has gotten into bad shape and it's to the point we can only repair so much. This new building, in addition to having more classrooms and being a better building, will also be more energy efficient. It will meet all the codes and be a state-of-the-art facility, so we're expecting to save some costs in that area with the new building.

James Mclean

Things break. You can't really plan for an individual pipe where it's going to break, when it's going to break, if it's going to break. What we do plan for is our response to repair.

Greg Wyatt

I know they've had some problems with their heavy equipment. The judge has said they're going to repair everything they've damaged. I think they're willing to be good citizens and keep the roads repaired also.

Derrick Spinks

If the lines are down, the first thing we will have to do is repair the lines. Once the lines are back, usually what we do is sectionalize it - we break out the different sections and try to put as many people on as possible.

George Rolfe

When you exceed your life expectancy, you're looking at a high repair costs.

Frank Hall

Credit-repair companies can't repair credit.

Dale Miller

Sometimes satellites can be damaged beyond repair.

Larry Combs

The average length of repair time is four hours from start to finish. Obviously, you have to include outside conditions. Nothing goes good at nighttime at 10 below zero.

Dave Zagorac

In order to protect ourselves we need to move quickly and address all of these sites and repair them before the next flood season.

Lester Snow

John Hancock owned one of the wharves. It needed repair. In this letter he instructs his agent in Plymouth to just sell it.

Peggy Baker

But it's not that nice and easy and smooth. Everybody, specially the elected officials, has to work hard to repair the hole in our not so modern ship.

Fidel Ramos

Living in Cincinnati, there wasn't any place I could go where people didn't know me, or think they knew me. It made my heart hurt. I couldn't repair the damage.

Angela Leisure

Our investigations into these incidents identified inadequacies in Kinder Morgan's interpretation of in-line inspection information to evaluate and repair their pipeline systems.

Stacey Gerard

Hockey has to repair the damage that has been done.

Phil Esposito

He thinks it's important for Latin America to build and repair infrastructure because the region either doesn't have it or its nowhere near what they have in the United States or Europe.

Peter Bate

It's supposed to go to repair the potholes and the roads and build new roads and new freeways. They use that for anything, all of their pork projects.

Bill Green

We are repairing the road on a war footing.

Vijay Batra

I would be here 10 hours a day and spent another four hours repairing the machines. You have to replace them, you know, so you can be more efficient.

Michael Montalto

Cost of repair was approximately $300 million, with the $250 million self-insured retention, which is like an insurance deduction. The $25 million was our insurance deductible.

Meg Scheu

Some poles will have termite damage and we've taken action to repair it.

Chuck Freedman

If these are baseless charges, it'll be OK. On the other hand, if there's something there, and it leads to him having to step out of office, it may be time to do some repair work and that may not have the consequences you would expect.

Leon Panetta

The telephone company is working on repairing the primary phone line that was damaged. We do not know at this time when the repairs will be completed.

Tony Molinaro

We never receive any formal funding for infrastructure. That's why the lack of tuition revenue bonds has been so painful. In the end we were just begging for money to repair the infrastructure.

Provost Hobson Wildenthal

And then as I looked around and noticed many other stones, all broken in the same way, I was sickened as I realized that this was an act of vandalism. When I collected myself, I was determined to figure out how to repair the stones, and help the other families repair theirs as well.

Gregory Rogers

Those are going to take major dollars (to repair) that the legislature did not give to us this last term.

John Parker

This is the NHL's repair year. They have to treat it almost like a new production introduction.

Allen Adamson

Towards this goal, we are currently dissecting the molecular mechanism by which the aborted function of this repair enzyme attenuates its normal repair pathway. This is crucial information for understanding how to design new drugs or other interventions that help patients.

Cynthia Mcmurray

The maintainer can look up all kinds of information about how to repair a system, document what they did, document any problems, and add any helpful hints that they need to share. It's a collaborative tool that lets them share information with other maintainers and between squadrons.

Gisele Bennett

We don't believe making replicas is the same as repairing the structures.

Brian Barnes

On a teacher's salary, no teacher could ever afford dependent care. Job number one (in the Legislature) is to repair education finance so we can pay salaries.

Vicky Rudy

He's bought a product which is not safe to use as currently sold on the market. He's paying for a product that's defective, and the law is pretty clear that if someone sold you a defective product they have a duty to repair it.

Steve Berman

We are aware of the conditions … and our department is progressing a guiderail repair project.

Jennifer Clark

Obviously there is concern about federal support to ensure they have the resources to keep the line in a state of good repair.

Dan Stessel

We might experience some kind of unforeseen upsets in repairing the city, but we are hoping to reopen Port Arthur by Friday.

Oscar Ortiz

This operation was a coordinated, nationwide attempt to root out bribery, kickbacks and fraud in the repair and maintenance of Navy supply ships in the maritime industry.

James Robinson

We must turn the country around to face its citizens. The scale of the repair will be so great that Poland will become a new republic.

Lech Kaczynski

Some of them will need some major (repair).

Phil Ramon

This would be an absolutely novel treatment, the first ever with potential to repair a traumatically damaged brain.

James Baumgartner

It's going to cost the community about $150,000 to replace the copper wiring that was stolen and repair the damage.

Steve Pageau

In the past there was no such thing as an appliance repair that cost more than $400, but today, $1,000 repairs are not uncommon.

Paul Myer

They need to go back into the existing agreement and repair the rules that limit a country's ability to have environmental safety and human rights laws.

Lori Wallach

Clearly, we need to refine our oversight of repair stations -- specifically as they become more popular. The inspector general's concern is perhaps maybe those actions aren't as quick as they should be, but we are moving forward with due speed.

Greg Martin

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

Steven Brust

This can only make the already-damaged image worse. The problem is, for four or five years, we haven't found a way to repair that damaged image.

Youssef Ibrahim

The system that Northwest has in place can't last forever. They're falling down. No matter what they report they are falling down on the repair of the aircraft and, at some point, it's going to have to come to an end and we're going to have to go back into work.

Ted Ludwig

For years, surgeons have been struggling to find the best way to avoid the greatest harm in patients with incidentally identified hernias. Avoiding harm in this case is easy — it can best be accomplished by counseling and educating patients and only repairing hernias that cause symptoms.

David R. Flum

I've gone to great lengths to repair the damage he's caused. I don't know what he'll do to other women.

Cari Benson

The market can begin to repair itself in this kind of environment. We're making a very nice bottom here, and assuming the fundamentals are what we think they are, we should have a better market going forward.

Grace Fey

We have quite a bit of concern with the 101 slide because it is constantly moving. We have been repairing it daily.

Tom Gibbs

It often takes several days to repair and clean up.

Susan Terpay

[So where is Garza these days? Back at that same auto-body repair shop - only now he and his brothers own it.] We buy old cars and fix them up, ... It's something we like to do to get our minds off everything.

Henry Garza

The estimated damages aren't even complete yet. (Experts) need to see what the damages are and what's going to be needed (to repair areas).

Brady Endryck

As long as there are cows, and as long as there are ranchers, there's going to be a demand to repair them.

Mike Dewitt

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

John F. Kennedy

Repairing these 65 units is a way to house people in this community, quickly.

Bubba Harper

If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it.

Hausa Proverb

The repair facility has a one-day turn-around policy on the repairs. So the faster it can receive the devices into [its] facility, the faster its technicians can begin their repair work.

Bob Berg

We also rely on the residents as the primary way to determine if the boxes have been vandalized or if they need maintenance. We have contractors who perform repair and maintenance.

David Lewin

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

Leo Fender

It got to the point that we couldn't just keep on repairing it and we decided to tear it down.

Tommy Bledsoe

What this truly is, is a publicity stunt meant to repair a faltering public image.

Chris Kofinis

Historically, whether it is owned or not, (the university) assists in repairing and maintaining the home because it is used so regularly for TSU functions.

Ron Franklin

What we would really like to see is for the property owners to repair the homes so they can go back on the tax rolls.

Larry Bailey

Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just won't know.

Jason Alderman

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

Leo Fender

This powerful combination of the best in transmission repair and car care will make our services even more convenient to our customers.

Brian O'donnell

The hurricane was the initial reason we came, but when we see calamities that have been in existence for years, we fix porches, floors as well as structural repair.

Hank Chardos

There is still a wide misunderstanding on the difference between the obligation to maintain, and the duty to insure, and responsibility for repair following a casualty.

Gary Poliakoff

You need to repair the credit history and the scores will improve. Once that (fraudulent) information is removed, it's gone and won't come back.

Rod Griffin

It is far better to build a child that?s strong than to repair a child that?s gone wrong.

Linda Clark

We've got tens of thousands of homes that still need repair.

Chester Jourdan

There are calls everywhere. People don't want to be inconvenienced, and I understand it. I don't want to be inconvenienced either. But there are times when you don't have a choice of how you're going to fix something. After 35-plus years it needs repair or eventually if you don't do something about it, it keeps deteriorating.

Donnie Drewer

Our immigration system is badly broken and needs repair.

Theodore E. Mccarrick

I don't wanna sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't wanna sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed, you know, as a career, I don't wanna do that...right now I just wanna be with your daughter, sir.

John Cusack

I found the house to be in very good repair.

Richard Barrette

After considerable repair and renovation work, we are pleased to support this community by re-opening our doors and providing Lake Charles with much-needed additional hotel capacity.

Anthony Sanfilippo

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

David Page

We were really counting on him as a left-handed pitcher to come through for us. He just had a slight tear in his shoulder. They had to repair it in a clinic in Alabama.

Kevin Kinsler

We're going to have a lot of additional demand for materials, both in the cleanup process and the repair process and going forward in rebuilding.

Michael Carliner

Quite a lot of their rolling stock got destroyed. They have a lot of trains sitting there which are beyond repair.

Alex Wood

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.

Robert Towne

Mechanical repair shops don't necessarily have a great reputation.

Scott Chapman

We are not repairing that road because of the imminent danger, perhaps, of the Morita dam. I don't want my crews out there repairing the highway and if this dam were to break, we could lose more people.

Rod Haraga

It will take about 12 weeks to repair the compartment. Our target date is June 30, although we hope to beat that.

Scott Harelson

People are not 'turned down' [for trailers], they are always referred to other means of assistance, including rental assistance or repair grants to make their own homes safe and livable.

Eugene Brezany

Repair and assessment operations are going on as we speak and the hurricane season is just around the corner now. Resources are already stretched to the limit.

Eugene Kim

Even though we have to cut our budget in oother places, we will spend what it takes to repair the damage, ... Acapulco is not destroyed. It will recover.

Ernesto Zedillo

Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.

Dr. Eric Larson

We haven't gotten to that period where we can stop the pumps from going on, and the water from coming through the force main and do the repair. I know we need to do a more thorough inspection and maintenance program also, not just replace pipe.

Eric Takamura

We need to expose the main before repair can begin.

Eric Takamura

We did identify the leak, it was a gas main in the street, and we have done the repair. Nobody lost any gas service.

Elizabeth Castro

At the end of the day what seems to be going on here is that Paris is the only victim. She's going to be stuck with the tab of repairing that car.

Elliot Mintz

We know that one of the functions of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes is to maintain genomic integrity, and to do that, they first have to be able to detect DNA damage and signal to the cell that it is there, and then become involved in repairing it.

Dr. Eliot Rosenkranz

It was a tough situation. We knew it was going to be tough when we came in. And we tried to repair as much as we could, but we came up short.

Zina Garrison