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If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

Joyce Meyer

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Joyce Meyer
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 4
Author
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Pauline Joyce Hutchison
Really
People
Causing
Impress
Admit
Honest

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