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"People who live in cities meet more people and therefore pick up and pass on more memes than people who live in isolated places. Among these memes are behaviors that are only possible in cities, eating out and going to pubs, going to cinemas, theaters, museums and art galleries, visiting friends at a moments notice, or having a high-powered job at the center of the action. The city dweller not only picks up these memes but meets other people who also have them. Once these habits are picked up they are hard to drop." (Blackmore, Susan, and Richard Dawkins. The Meme Machine. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. 211.)