From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... add anything
to what he already knows.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
2.
... add dramatic
descriptions of that part of ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
Then, for good measure, we
add dramatic descriptions of that part
of our drinking behavior which our friends
probably know about anyhow.
3.
... add that
a beginning, even the smallest, ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
4.
... add to
each one of them this ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Even so, when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification: "...if it be Thy will."
5.
... add to
this the habitual supposition that ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
When you add to this the habitual supposition
that people ought to give money to alcoholics trying to stay sober, it can be understood why we thought we deserved a pile of folding money.
6.
... add up
into weeks, the weeks into ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
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