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“All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.”

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Book:The complete short stories

Source: The complete short stories

“The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.”

Men Found Society Missing Links Apes Embryos

Author:Arthur Koestler

“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.”

Humans Missing Currents Links Genes Socialist Monkeys Apes

Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.”

Wisdom Politics Goal Millions Economy Missing Recognition Liberalism Links Sole Ownership Indispensable Acquisition Turning Points

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.”

Thinking Wells Problem Missing Produce Scene Links

Author:Grimes

“I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!”

Men Missing Civilized Links Apes

Book:Toward a Psychology of Being

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

“The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.”

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Author:David Attenborough

“Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.”

Source: Transparent things: a novel

“The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.”

Teaching Missing Models Research Hospitals Links Global Health

Author:Paul Farmer

“The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.”

Economy Issues Missing Contribution Our Society Links Childcare

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history, and then we had the higher education of women, and then women more fully participating in the economy and in business, the professions, education, you name the subject... but the missing link has always been: is there quality, affordable healthcare for all women, regardless of what their family situation might be?”

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Author:Nancy Pelosi

“I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.”

Men Found Missing Higher Civilized Links Apes

Author:Konrad Lorenz