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If we allow Russia to continue to do what it is doing in Ukraine with impunity, a Pandora’s box will open and every potential aggressor around the world will say, ‘If the Russians get away with it, I can get away with it.’

If someone wants to open this Pandora’s box and deal with it, all right, go for it then.

From Pandora’s Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

In life,there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora’s Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.

Thirty years ago, the Pandora’s box of the Internet wasn’t yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

If you open that Pandora’s Box you never know what Trojan ‘orses will jump out.

I think talking about one’s love life is always… It’s a Pandora’s box, best kept in journals.

Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night, she countered. That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

We live in the best of all possible worlds

By the way, pornography? It’s a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora’s box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed.

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora’s box, a story that’s freely given can’t be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner – the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It’s like opening Pandora’s box.

I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

Hope…which is whispered from PAndora’s box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It’s sort of a Pandora’s box of energy for me.

Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope…plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora’s box by doing that.

Barack Obama’s strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is that that might open a Pandora’s Box.

On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora’s box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.

You’re playing with Pandora’s box. Sometimes it’s better not to open it. Sometimes, it’s better not to know.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.