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The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.
David O. McKay
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David O. McKay
Age: 96 †
Born: 1873
Born: September 8
Died: 1970
Died: January 18
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Brothers and sisters, I believe that there are few, even temple workers, who comprehend the full meaning and power of the temple endowment. Seen for what it is, it is the step-by-step ascent into the Eternal Presence. If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives.
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Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.
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Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.
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To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.
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Slander is poison to the soul.
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Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.
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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
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What you think about when you don't think, shows who you really are.
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Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
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Trust is greater than love.
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The Constitution of this government was written by men who accepted Jesus Christ as the Savior of mankind. Let men and women in these United States then continue to keep their eyes centered upon Him who ever shines as a Light to all the world.
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If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.
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Men and women who live in America...have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document.
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An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.
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Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.
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