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You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

Pope Paul VI

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Pope Paul VI
Age: 80 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 26
Died: 1978
Died: August 6
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Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini
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