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Today's Anniversary - 23rd May

Births

• 1926 - Joe Slovo
• 1947 - Paul Gruchow
• 1948 - Gary McCord
• 1903 - Walter Reisch
• 1944 - John Newcombe

Deaths

• 1934 - Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
• 1886 - Leopold Von Ranke
• 2012 - Paul Fussell
• 1992 - Giovanni Falcone
• 2002 - Sam Snead

• Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

  Pope Paul VI

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• In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long.

  Pope Paul VI

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• The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.

  Pope Paul VI

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• Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman’s greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn’t want her.

  Pope Paul VI

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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

• We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

  Pope Paul VI

• ccblazing indiscretions of other people.

  Pope Paul VI

• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Pope Paul VI

• The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

  Pope Paul VI

• The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.

  Pope Paul VI

• Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

  Pope Paul VI

• Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

  Pope Paul VI

• Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

  Pope Paul VI

• Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

  Pope Paul VI

• No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

  Pope Paul VI

• Never reach out your hand unless you’re willing to extend an arm.

  Pope Paul VI

• Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

  Pope Paul VI

• If you want peace work for justice.

  Pope Paul VI

• I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

  Pope Paul VI

• Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

  Pope Paul VI