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The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?

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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Prophet
Teacher
Huntsville
Utah
David Oman McKay
Truth
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Hungry
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Equal
Hear
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[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.
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True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.
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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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There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.
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The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar it begins during the period of youth and courtship.
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This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints - to get in the struggle to preserve freedom. Everywhere that Communism succeeds, missionary work, temple work, everything the Church does, dies. Your number one responsibility is to preserve freedom.
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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
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Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.
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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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Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.
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