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

Arthur C. Clarke
Men, Alive, Ratios
Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.18, RosettaBooks
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.