You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs

1. We must give up or destroy something to gain something.

Example Sentences

Just as you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found that you can't make long-term memories without DNA damage and brain inflammation.

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Chipperfield responded to the criticism by saying that change always comes at a cost: “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”

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Walter Duranty, the Times’ correspondent in Moscow, excused the three million famine deaths that were caused by the push to collectivize Soviet agriculture, writing that, “to put it brutally—you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”

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“You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”

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Supremely unconcerned about the multitudes of people his projects displaced, Moses was a fervent believer in the school of urban renewal that insisted you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

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