People

People

A people is a plurality of persons considered as a whole, as in an ethnic group or nation. Collectively, for example, Jews are known as "the Jewish people", European Gypsies comprise the bulk of "the Romani people", and Palestinian Arabs have started to be called "the Palestinian people".

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Famous quotes containing the word people:

    “How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)