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  • ~ No Self -- Jed McKenna says in his book, _Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing_, that we can't find our true selves because the true self does not exist.

    Speedlinking 9/14/07 William Harryman 2007

  • He wrote a book called “Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing.”

    Archive 2007-02-01 Steven Barnes 2007

  • Damnedest mutant power the Xavier Institute had ever seen: no matter WHAT you put on a scavenger-hunt list, Beth could find it.

    YesButNoButYes: Caption Competition 2007

  • "Damnedest thing," he said, trying to remember what a Texas twang sounded like.

    Empire Builders Bova, Ben 1993

  • Damnedest thing I ever heard of, Reidinger complained to the Rowan,

    The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

  • Damnedest slipperiest fish you ever saw, and got horns that sting the stuffin's out of you and ----

    Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Damnedest ten days I ever lived through, "he continued, helping himself to whisky and soda," and most infernal ten nights, too.

    The Halo Bettina Von Hutten 1915

  • Kodaks clicked, clergymen beamed, ladies said, "How sweetly picturesque -- poor dears"; the Captain murmured, "Damnedest scoundrels unhung -- but can't leave 'em to starve"; the "poor dears" smiled largely and ate wolfishly; Moussa Isa bled, and the great steamer resumed her way.

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

  • Damnedest thing I've come across in ... oh, probably two weeks.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • Introduction 1. A Campaign That Failed 2. A Fine Pleasure Trip 3. The Damnedest Country Under the Sun 4. Enterprise 5. Heaven on the Half Shell 6. Luxurious Vagrancy 7. The Trouble Begins

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

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