If the egg’s shell does not break,….. the chick will…

If the egg’s shell does not break,….. the chick will die without being born. We are the chick; the egg is the world. If the world’s shell does not break, we will die without being born. Break the world’s shell! For the sake of revolutionizing the world!

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The “student council” speech, repeated by several people over the course of the series. Based on a section of the novel Demian by Hermann Hesse.

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