The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER
A hen is only a egg's way of making another egg.
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It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg
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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
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I am only an egg.
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In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.
Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
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The organism is only DNA's way of making more DNA.
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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
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Roxster, my photo is of an egg.
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It is very hard to shave an egg
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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Send not for a hatchet to break open an egg with
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Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!
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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale
RICHARD DAWKINS
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect o...
RICHARD DAWKINS
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.
RICHARD DAWKINS
I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there&...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Осьминог ничем не похож на мышь, а оба они сильно отлич�...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Некоторые критики ошибочно считают, что «Эгоистичный �...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules kno...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably non...
RICHARD DAWKINS
But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the na...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye wi...
RICHARD DAWKINS
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of re...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two m...
RICHARD DAWKINS
It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious
defence? One might have supp...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly depa...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consumin...
RICHARD DAWKINS
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independen...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If you don't understand how something
works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You d...
RICHARD DAWKINS