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• One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs -- but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs -- but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.
• If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply
  You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. -- Hermann Goering...
• You can't break eggs without making an omelet.
• You can't make pancakes without breaking eggs. Spanish Proverb
• Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion.
  An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely....
• At any given moment, a society contains a certain amount of accumulated and accruing aggressiveness.
  If more than twenty-one years elapse without this aggressiveness being directed outward, in a popular war against other countries, it turns inward, in social unrest, civil disturbances, and political disruption....
• Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.