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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“Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)