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

— Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
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