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Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate! [Abandon all hope, you who enter!
] -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) -- La Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy] (1310-1321) "Inferno" canto 3, l....
Lascivious adulterer!" "Don't call me that again until I look it up!
Ah, a lascivious adulterer is a man who is a lascivious adulterer!...
lase: /layz/ vt. To print a given document via a laser printer.
"OK, let's lase that sucker and see if all those graphics-macro calls did the right things....
laser chicken: n. Kung Pao Chicken, a standard Chinese dish containing chicken, peanuts, and hot red peppers in a spicy pepper-oil sauce.
Many hackers call it `laser chicken' for two reaso...
LASER: Failed death ray.
Laser printers do it without making an impression.
Lasherism: [Harvard] n. A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens puzzle or implementing the {life} algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way.
Distinguished from a ...
Lassie looked brilliant, in part because the farm family she lived with was made up of idiots.
Remember?...
Last, but by no means least, courage -- moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through.
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old...
Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague; seek viable alternatives.

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