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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin 1622-1673. French playwright whose sophisticated comedies include Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), and The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670).
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“Microsoft is second only to North Korea or China in opression of ideas, and about the same in anti-Americanism. — theantibush”
Microsoft President on Micro-Hoo: We Can Do It - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“Oh, give me your children, your huddled masses and those yearning to breath free far away from the opression and dogmatism of preservation and the mandate of oak windows in your bedroom.”
“We should not cause them harm and further opression, by our actions.”
“You don't invite government leaders who practice tyranny, opression and who murder it's citizens for standing up for their rights to a celebration of freedom.”
“And if they got their way and everyone aggreed. what actually do you want to change or return to, Tax Cuts, no-regulation, opression of the people from Goverment Entitlements.”
“The Second Amendment was meant to be a check against government opression.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote
“Martinned: On the other hand, a dictator who is not in it for the money, but is instead motivated by some form of communist ideology, will take an approach to opression that is qualitatively different, which is why we give such opression a different name: totalitarianism.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
“On the other hand, a dictator who is not in it for the money, but is instead motivated by some form of communist ideology, will take an approach to opression that is qualitatively different, which is why we give such opression a different name: totalitarianism.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
“For a majority of Soviet people “oppression” come as hindsight revelation with a sizable portion of population still refusing to accept the full scope, or even the existence, of any such opression.”
“Its amazing what is done in the name of culture and religion. .although i am yet to see any tangible religious evidence for FGM. .it is an unnecessay evil practice fuelled by ignorance and opression.”
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