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Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Stop up the openings, Close down the doors, Rub off the sharp edges. Unravel all confusion. Harmonize the light, Give up contention: This is called finding the unity of life. -- Laozi
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. -- Jean Cocteau
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. -- Robert Caro
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. -- Don DeLillo
Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option. -- Howard Schultz
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind. -- Matthieu Ricard
Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. -- Jason Isaacs
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women? -- Evan Goldberg
I believe anything has to be possible. You have to be able to face any problem that comes along and unravel it into a solution. -- Jon Oringer
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart. -- John Madden
The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God. -- Henry Eyring
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. -- Aaron Klug
I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts. -- David Walliams
The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it. -- Yoko Ono
When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go far enough down that line, much of the fabric of our economy starts to unravel. -- Elizabeth Warren
Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven. -- Adriana Trigiani
For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic. -- Christopher Poole
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
All my life, I had this idea that if I could unravel the mystery that was my mother, then I could help save her. But it didn't really work. We were close, but she struggled with mental illness and alcoholism, and it was rough at times. -- Jennifer McMahon
We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience. -- Jon Anderson
Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us. -- Jacqueline McKenzie
We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there. -- J. Michael Straczynski
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel. -- Charles Spurgeon
The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries. -- Jose Angel Gurria
We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Don't let something you don't fully understand unravel everything you do know. -- Kevin W. Pearson
Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait. -- Lisa Randall
Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones. -- Joss Whedon
The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them. -- Giorgio Baglivi
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. -- Garry Kasparov
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. -- Ian Mcewan
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told. -- Pat Conroy
each day's life comes with lot of puzzles, mysteries to unravel; being so conscious of life can make one so unconscious of life -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women? -- Evan Goldberg
Itâ??s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people Iâ??d assassinated, that I unravel inside. -- Cheyenne McCray
People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel. -- Jodi Picoult
You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel. -- Lynn Johnston
Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature. -- Philip Emeagwali
One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature. -- Isaac Marion
You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too. -- Anthony Davis
We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off. -- Frederic Raphael
Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all. -- Alexander Smith
Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core -- Cecelia Ahern
If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel. -- Kenny Loggins
The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery. -- Carlos Castaneda
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was. -- Terry Pratchett
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power. -- Richard Trumka
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart. -- John Madden
Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds. -- Elizabeth Lesser
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for. -- Charles Spurgeon
I glanced into his emerald green eyes and felt the depth of my feelings unravel. If anything, my feelings were stronger because my heart longed to be with him. -- B. Truly
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it. -- Giovanni Ruffini
What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel. -- Ludwig Buchner
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel. -- John Welwood
To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future. -- John Daishin Buksbazen
Courage lays within easy reach of a child who knows nothing of how easily understanding can unravel, leaving a set of rules that apply to nothing, and an empty heart. -- Sonja Yoerg
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. -- Omar Khayyam
The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it. -- Billy Corgan
It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity. -- Walter Wriston
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As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel. -- Hannah Kent
The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread. -- George Zebrowski
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise. -- Michel Foucault
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry... -- Primo Levi

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