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Pandora's box

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1. Pandora's box - Noun

2. Pandora's box - Phrase

Meaning

(Greek mythology) a box that Zeus gave to Pandora with instructions that she not open it; she gave in to her curiosity and opened it; all the miseries and evils flew out to afflict mankind

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It is very difficult to tuck a bugle call back into a bugle. Pandora's Box is a one-way proposition. You can turn a pig into sausage, but not sausage into pig. Broken eggs stay broken. Robert A. Heinlein

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box. Mason Cooley

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. Candace Bushnell

To believe that new monsters will arise as vicious as the old, to believe that the great Pandora's Box of human frailty, once opened, will never show a diminution of its ugly swarm, is to help, by just that much, to make it so forever. Thomas Wolfe

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

With the massive amount of personal data on the Internet, Facebook nation has opened Pandora's box of total information awareness in the age of big data. Fortunately, Pandora's box released not only evil but also hope. ... The hope is that good will trump evil. Newton Lee

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