"In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls"
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"As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette."
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"Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string."
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"He that steals an egg will steal an ox."
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"It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]"
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"Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old."
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"Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself."
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"We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them."
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"Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another."
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"By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!"
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"Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy."
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"The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready"
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"An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome."
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"When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning."
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"It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings."
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"Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?"
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"In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg."
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