"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."

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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."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Measurement, Change

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"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, Decisions, Fact, Information

"But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?"

Information, Press, Waiting

"The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state."

Government, People, Interest, State

"All of the information that we were getting up to that time from the NRC people, from our people who knew something about nuclear power, was that the breach of the core was not a likelihood to happen."

Time, Power, People, Information

"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."

Power, Building, Walking, Water

"I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy."

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"Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around."

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"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."

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"The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know."

Being, First, Office, Saying

"You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that."

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