"Every time I turn around, it's a new person saying hello, " Taylor said.

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We gathered in the street just after teatime as Camilla Tellefsen, our 28-year-old choreographer, worked her way through the crowd saying hello.

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Maybe he was saying hello to someone waiting on the other side.

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People in Argentina commonly kiss one another on the cheek in saying hello and goodbye, expressing a warm feeling even between a dentist office receptionist and patient.

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But as we travel deeper into this new world of constant connectedness and ever-present technology, I wonder whether we are saying hello to the world or goodbye to society.

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Additionally, research shows that employees who move beyond surface interaction behaviors, such as smiling or saying hello, to deeper, more meaningful behaviors score much higher in quality of the service.

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Like the writer Sheila Heti and the filmmaker Lena Dunham, Ocean is deciding what it means to talk about friendship, drugs, love, and sex, and is setting the parameters for shame and regret in a world in which failure is simply a way of saying hello.

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He felt Mom looking at him from Heaven, as if saying, Hello, are we maybe forgetting something?

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How about, might we suggest, saying "Hello" to your fellow metal box occupants?

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This is just my way of saying, 'Hello, there's an issue that people far more skilled than I am in these topics need to address.

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