"The piano is the social instrument par excellence...……" — Jacques Barzun

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• I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. — Michael Caine
• Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois… — Nick Cave
• I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such… — Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of… — Dorothy Day
• Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having… — Mikhail Bakunin
• Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women. — Nadezhda Krupskaya
• Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the… — Unknown Author
• To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through… — Vladimir Lenin
• I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the… — Adolf Hitler
• For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical,… — Adolf Hitler
• It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is… — Adolf Hitler
• It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a… — Albert Einstein

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