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Light travels at the speed of thought.
lightweight: adj. Opposite of {heavyweight}; usually found in combining forms such as `lightweight process'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Lightweight: lighter than rugged.
Like a bang, a boom-a-boomerang, dum-de-dum-dum, be-dum-de-dum-dum -- ABBA
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Locksley Hall, Line 79
Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Act ii, Sc.
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Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, M...
Like all reputable surgeons, I charge by the pound... -- Ernie
Like all women, she believed that rest and pleasure were bad for men.
-- Fritz Leiber, "Swords and Ice Magic...

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