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"Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was."
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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."
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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
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"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."
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"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground."
Computer
"Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong."
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"My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have."
Time
"None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing."
Power
"You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor."
People
"What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that."
Fact
"And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions."
Decision-Making
"And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it."
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"You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that."
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"When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant."
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