He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
“What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people.”
Above all else, people and human relationships are what matter most.
— Traditional New Zealand Wisdom, New Zealand
Source: Traditional Māori whakataukī (proverb), public-domain oral tradition; documented in Mead & Grove, 'Ngā Pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna' (2001)
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