"Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners."

-- Alan Freed

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“Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.”
“I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.”
“From the Latin word "imponere", base of the obsolete English "impone" and translated as "impress" in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined the terms "imponator" (a device that does nothing but impress bystanders, referred to as the "imponator effect") and "imponade" (that "goo" that fills you as you get impressed with something - from "marmelade", often referred as "full of imponade", always ironic).”
“The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.”
“Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.”
“To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.”
“I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.”
“In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.”

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