“The missing link between an ape and a human are we.”
Rolf Arnkil (1923–1964)
Original: (fi) Puuttuva rengas ihmisen ja apinan välillä olemme me.
Suuri Sitaattisanakirja. Toimittanut Jarkko Laine. Helsinki: Otava, 1989. ISBN 951-1-10961-8
“Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.”
Source: magazine Najwyższy Czas!, 3 January 2008
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