"Behind every man now alive there stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet earth.
"Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way.
"So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star."
--Arthur C. Clarke
1917-2008
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