Explain How Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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Actions speak louder than words. In high school people don’t notice these things as much. Little that they know people experience these things. You see this happen more often with girls than with boys, I know this from experience. I have had times when I expressed myself in a wrong way and it almost got me in trouble. A lot of people notice these type of things, even people I don’t know. The way actions speak louder it can be more powerful than words is by the way you present yourself or express yourself. It’s like the saying that says “A picture can speak 1,000 words without even knowing it. Well the words can be positive or negative what matters is how it shows and express our faces.
Me from experience, have changed my ways in how I express

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