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Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

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James Nicoll
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 18
Literary Critic
Writer
Kitchener
Ontario
James Davis Nicoll
James D. Nicoll
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Machines
Tomorrow
Fight
Bring
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My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.
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