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1.
... actual and potential alcoholics in the world, ...   BB xxi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
So far, upon the total problem of several million actual and potential alcoholics in the world, we have made only a scratch.


2.
... actual experience.   BB p.180, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 180 in the Big Book
Of far more importance was the fact that he was the first living human with whom I had ever talked, who knew what he was talking about in regard to alcoholism from actual experience.

3.
... actual experience of meditation and prayer across ...   12&12 p.98, Step Eleven
The actual experience of meditation and prayer across the centuries is, of course, immense.

4.
... actual good results of prayer are beyond ...   12&12 p.104, Step Eleven
In A.A. we have found that the actual good results of prayer are beyond question.

5.
... actual harm.   12&12 p.85, Step Nine
The only exceptions we will make will be cases where our disclosure would cause actual harm.

6.
... actual humility.   12&12 p.58, Step Five
But while this was a humiliating experience, it didn't necessarily mean that we had yet acquired much actual humility.

7.
... actual infidelity, who are reunited by the ...   12&12 p.114, Step Twelve
We have sometimes seen families broken apart by misunderstanding, tensions, or actual infidelity, who are reunited by the A.A. way of life.

8.
... actual operation it discloses a society without ...   12&12 p.175, Tradition Nine
Though Tradition Nine at first sight seems to deal with a purely practical matter, in its actual operation it discloses a society without organization, animated only by the spirit of service -- a true fellowship.

9.
... actual or implied.   12&12 p.190, Tradition Six (Long)
While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never to go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied.


10.
... actual or implied.   BB p.564(566), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied.


11.
... actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an ...   BB p.39, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 39 in the Big Book
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.


12.
... actual or potential alcoholics.   BB p.149, To Employers   Go to page 149 in the Big Book
That company may harbor many actual or potential alcoholics.

13.
... actual or potential financial insecurity of every ...   12&12 p.121, Step Twelve
We forgot that most alcoholics in A.A. have an earning power considerably above average; we forgot the immense goodwill of our brother A.A.'s who were only too eager to help us to better jobs when we deserved them; we forgot the actual or potential financial insecurity of every human being in the world.


14.
... actual practice, we usually find a solitary ...   BB p.72, Into Action   Go to page 72 in the Big Book
In actual practice, we usually find a solitary self-appraisal insufficient.

15.
... actual reality.   12&12 p.122, Step Twelve
He's still ambitious, but not absurdly so, because he can now see and accept actual reality.

16.
... actual taking of Step Seven, it might ...   12&12 p.76, Step Seven
As we approach the actual taking of Step Seven, it might be well if we A.A.'s inquire once more just what our deeper objectives are.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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