From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... age?
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?
2.
... age.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
His income is good, he has a
fine home, is happily married and the father of promising children of college age.
3.
... age --
among them, many in their teens.
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Seven percent of the A.A.'s surveyed are less than 30 years of age -- among them, many in their teens.
4.
... age characterized
by the ease with which ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does
not work for something new which does?
5.
... age, gender,
race, and culture -- have widened ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
The stories added to this
edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened
to encompass virtually everyone the
first 100 members could have hoped to
reach.
6.
... age of
fifty-five, after a successful and ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
An exceptional man, he
remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.
7.
... age of
miracles is still with us.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
8.
... age-old, baffling
malady, alcoholism.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship
of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery
from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.
9.
... age-old perplexities,
but our own experience does ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
We A.A.'s cannot pretend to
offer full answers to age-old perplexities, but our
own experience does provide certain answers that work for us.
10.
... age-old public
health and social problem, alcoholism ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with
this condition is being
blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
11.
... age-old riddle
of alcoholism, He can solve ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
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