A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from settin…

T. S. Eliot
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A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Notes towards the Definition of Culture, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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