Aging is mostly the failure to repair.
When I was a teenager in Accomack County, the class I most enjoyed was a vocational skills course on small engine repair.
Actions aimed at supporting deleveraging and balance-sheet repair - such as recognizing losses, writing down assets, and recapitalizing banks - carry longer-term benefits but short-term costs.
When I was a teenager in Accomack County, the class I most enjoyed was a vocational skills course on small engine repair.
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
You know, I write songs, I repair guitars.
When any part of the Station is moved from its designated location to do a repair, we really risk losing things.
You know, I write songs, I repair guitars.
The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
I have sun damage that I want to repair, but I also want to keep myself from further damage.
The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
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.
If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.
I lived, while 1 1/2 million Jewish children died. So I have an obligation to repair the world.
I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.
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.
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.