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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“In Goyas greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
suffering humanity”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
“Three people equal one tiger.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)
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