Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. (Arthur C. Clarke)

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Arthur C. Clarke

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