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From 1995, various historical figures answer the age-old question, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

Plato
For the greater good.
Karl Marx
It was an historical inevitability.
Machiavelli
So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken’s dominion maintained.
Hippocrates
Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.
Jacques Derrida
Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
Torquemada
Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I’ll find out.
Timothy Leary
Because that’s the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
Douglas Adams
Forty two.
Nietzsche
Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
Oliver North
National security was at stake.
B.F. Skinner
Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.
Carl Jung
The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.
Jean–Paul Sartre
In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The possibility of “crossing” was encoded into the objects “chicken” and “road,” and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
Albert Einstein
Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Aristotle
To actualize its potential.
Buddha
If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Howard Cosell
It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.
Salvador Dali
The Fish.
Darwin
It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
Emily Dickinson
Because it could not stop for death.
Epicurus
For fun.
Emerson
It didn’t cross the road; it transcended it.
Goethe
The eternal hen–principle made it do it.
Hemingway
To die. In the rain.
Heisenberg
We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
David Hume
Out of custom and habit.
Saddam Hussein
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.
Jack Nicholson
’Cause it (censored) wanted to. That’s the (censored) reason.
Pyrrho the Skeptic
What road?
Ronald Reagan
I forget.
John Sununu
The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.
The Sphinx
You tell me.
St. Peter
I tell you, I don’t know any chicken.
Thoreau
To live deliberately...and suck all the marrow out of life.
Mark Twain
The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Herbert Marcuse
It was beguiled by false needs. Evidently, it was under the impression that the other side of the road was even better than the side it was already on.
Emile Durkheim
The chicken may have been an individual seeking to express its moral imperative in doing the right thing.
George H.W. Bush
Chicken. Road. Crossed it. Just because.
Rush Limbaugh
Get back here, I’m still hungry! The darn thing just up and took off! And that was not the right thing to do.
Bill Clinton
Well, it could have crossed the road, for some reason, which we will determine after a period of study.
Sinead O’Connor
“Flee chicken! Flee and be free!” The chicken wanted freedom from the chicken–eating big people.
Captain Kirk
Perhaps/probably/it seems/to which direction did the chicken go? Bones? Scotty? Spock?
Bones
Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a Colonel!
Scotty
She’s criss–crossed like a Christmas tree! I’ll need more time!
Spock
Logic suggests the chicken required itself to be on the other side of the road. For which purpose cannot be determined at this time.
Picard
Is it moral to interfere with the chicken’s choices?
Troi
I sense something from the chicken, sir. It’s definitely across the road.
Worf
Tasty.
Karl Marx
In order for the chicken to have increased meat mass, the capitalists required the chicken to cross the road several times.
Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate
Can we talk about this? I mean, I’m not so happy right now and I’d rather not answer the question.
F. Lee Bailey
Objection, your Honor. My opponent is leading the chicken.
Spike Lee
It’s a chicken thing. You wouldn’t understand.
Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally...
You know, chickens and ducks can never really be friends.
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