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								And that damn-fool Buddy Garrity driving around in a golf cart. Ask Matt: The Closer, Damages, New Girl, Pan Am and More! 2011 
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								That claim — actually, the claim is “biggest damn-fool mistake” — is apparently open to question. The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Justices Who Hadn’t Been Judges 2010 
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								But I am on the fence regarding damnfool/damn-fool/damn fool. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway careswen 2009 
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								I know the type – seen it all before – costly school, well-connected friends, stuffed full of prim nonsense about the nobility of society and now, just because he cracked some damn-fool joke in the House of Commons, everyone thinks he's a proper bully. Unthinkable? Flashman and the prime minister | Editorial 2011 
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								All those damn-fool engineers and doctors trying to make people healthier. How Federal Crackdown on Bribery Hurts Business And Enriches Insiders 2010 
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								A realistic view of corporate and private economic behavior must be clear-eyed about our damn-fool talent for exaggerated self-importance, tribal arrogance, wishful thinking, and the thousand little daily self-justifications that lead to destructive, unintended consequences. Ray Waddle: Faith and Financial America's Moral Compass Ray Waddle 2010 
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								The nickname became synonymous with eccentricity, and it stuck, even after Royko himself lamented that it was nothing more than an "idiotic, damn-fool, meaningless, throw-away line." At 72, California gubernatorial candidate is the same old Jerry Brown 2010 
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								That claim — actually, the claim is “biggest damn-fool mistake” — is apparently open to question. The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Justices Who Hadn’t Been Judges 2010 
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								All those damn-fool engineers and doctors trying to make people healthier. How Federal Crackdown on Bribery Hurts Business And Enriches Insiders 2010 
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								All those damn-fool engineers and doctors trying to make people healthier. The Bribery Racket 2010 
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