#maintenance

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

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There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer. ↗

— Betty Buckley

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

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. ↗

— Tojo Hideki

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Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy. ↗

— James Meade

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Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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