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

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

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

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

We do a very good job at fixing broken bodies but not such a great job at healing broken minds with our returning veterans.

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