defines

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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. Scott Adams

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. Henry Rollins

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives. Douglas Coupland

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument. Lewis H. Lapham

The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth. He is not, therefore, mistaking one thing for another, he is simply identifying them one with another by what seems to us a quaint extension of the word "lie." Jean Piaget

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. Roger Scruton