Plato: For the greater good.
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
Oliver North: National Security was at stake.
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.
Salvador Dali: The Fish.
Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.
Ronald Reagan: I forget.
Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Captain James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
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