A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
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It is generally agreed that 'Hello' is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said 'Goodbye,' it could confuse a lot of people.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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As for evildoers, for them awaits a painful chastisement; but for those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, they shall be admitted to gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein dwelling forever, by the leave of their Lord, their greeting therein: Peace!
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John: Hey. Aeryn: A greeting I shall never understand. John: It's kind of all-purpose. Lets the other person decide what they want to talk about. Aeryn: What if they don't want to talk? John: Then they say hey back. Aeryn: Hey. John: Well now the first person that doesn't want to talk can be trumped if the other person realizes that they need to. Hey. Aeryn: I hate being ambushed.
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James 1:1:
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings.
(NIV)
JAMES, A servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered abroad [among the Gentiles in the dispersion]: Greetings (rejoice)!
(AMP)
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
(KJV)
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Life is like a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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You are come in very happy time To bear my greeting to the senators And tell them that I will not come today.
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