1.   Aboriginal paintings and carvings, along with their oral traditions, capture the myths and histories that define their culture.

2.   Culture is defined by stuff like how you handle your office supplies.

3.   Each social faction has its criteria for greatness and devises a fitting emblem for it, feeding the factory of signs that define culture.

4.   Makah culture is defined by the whale.

5.   Neither state boundaries nor geography define culture.

6.   Richard Two Dogs, the medicine man at the treatment center, said that young American Indians often assumed that drinking and despair have always defined their culture.

7.   The book argues that American culture is defined by its militarism, which still dominates politics and society despite the end of the Cold War.

8.   The second defines culture as the sum total of intellectual, philosophical, ethical and aesthetic achievements.

9.   The vision of the solitary walker that Rousseau pioneered came to define a culture.

10.   These values have always defined American culture, but today they are shaping Europe and Asia willy-nilly because otherwise they could not keep up.