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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“True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?””
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 32:21.