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"None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing."
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"The greatest dilemma man has to face is figuring out what to do with his time."
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"There is a fire that burns in soul."
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"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it."
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"With the strength of grace, we can survive any situation."
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"Words are forces of life."
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"Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America."
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"We are sustained by God's mighty power."
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"And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also."
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"You ought to find all your might, to climb a higher height."
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"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."
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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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"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
"And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained."
Time
"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
"And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it."
Photography
"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
"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."
Media
"They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed."
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"There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning."
People
"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."
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