People
- Charles Darwin is known to have traveled to Porto Praya, evident from his Voyage of the Beagle.
- Gelson Fernandes, a footballer who currently plays for Leicester City and Switzerland.
- Nani, a footballer who currently plays for Manchester United and Portugal.
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“The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort?... Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“I hadn’t an illusion in my handbag
About the people being better there
Than those I left behind. I thought they weren’t.
I thought they couldn’t be. And yet they were.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)