Vanity of vanities; all is vanity

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A statement at the beginning of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament. The pointlessness of human activity is the major theme of the book. The author, however, like Job, insists that God's laws must be kept, whether keeping them results in happiness or sorrow.

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But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
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The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.
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Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years.
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The building used to be an all-girls school, and when it was initially purchased by Fortune it was dilapidated.
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This led to the formation of a Christian militant group to counter the rebels, and all-out sectarian violence exploded.
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Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
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I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.
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"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
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He had discovered that the all-glorious boast of Spain was not exempt from the infirmities of common men.
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Naturally the conversation fell on the all-absorbing topic of the day and the object of his mission.
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