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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
Confusion, Groups, Statistics
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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.