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If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

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
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One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.
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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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As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
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If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.
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Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.
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All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
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True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.
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Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities
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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?
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Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, and one of the most urgent and pressing for attention and action of all liberty loving people, is the preservation of individual liberty.
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As long as the day lasts, let's give it all we got.
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One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.
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Trust is greater than love.
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Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
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The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
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Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
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I repeat that no greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this republic and of neighboring republics than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States.
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