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Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
Sep 28, 2025
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.
I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.
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.
There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."
You CAN make an omelette without breaking eggs. It's just a really bad omelette.
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.
You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.
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