Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on soci…

Mark Twain
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is true, will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.
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