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Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.
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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Huntsville
Utah
David Oman McKay
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I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.
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If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!
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