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Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest Quotes: The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril
         

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril


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