From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... almost 28,000
groups meeting in over 90 ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership
of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.
2.
... almost alone.
BB p.105,
To Wives
3.
... almost always
concerned with ways to make ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Let it be noted, too, that
they were almost always concerned with ways to make A.A. more effective, how to do
the most good for the most alcoholics.
4.
... almost always
in collision with something or ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
On that basis we are almost
always in collision
with something or somebody, even though our motives are good.
5.
... almost always
insist on checking with friends ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or
spiritual advisers
the guidance they feel
they have received from God.
6.
Almost always
we want to go further ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
7.
... almost always
with me.
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It was almost always with
me.
8.
... almost an
old story and airplane travel ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Only thirty years later the conquest of the air was almost an old story and airplane travel was in full swing.
9.
... almost any
A.A. member.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
Of course, the often disputed question of whether God can -- and will, under certain conditions -- remove defects of character will be answered with a prompt affirmative by almost any A.A. member.
10.
... almost any
alcoholic can ask questions like ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Surveying his business or employment
record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my
drinking problem, what
character defects contributed to my financial instability?
11.
... almost any
amount of battering.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
When A.A.'s Traditions
were first published, in
1946, we had become sure that an A.A. group could stand almost any amount of battering.
12.
Almost any
experienced A.A. will tell how ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the
better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God.
13.
... almost anyone.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
When opportunities to be helpful came along, he found he could talk easily about A.A. to almost anyone.
14.
... almost anything
if he has accepted our ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
In fact, he may say almost anything if he has accepted our solution
which, as you know, demands
rigorous honesty.
15.
... almost as
extensive as that we have ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
When we take such personality traits as
these into shop, office, and
the society of our fellows, they can do damage
almost as extensive as
that we have caused at home.
16.
... almost be
said that we were born ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
It could almost be said that
we were born with it, for, as one oldtimer recently declared, "Practically never have I
heard a heated religious, political,
or reform argument among A.A. members.
17.
... almost broke.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
18.
... almost certain
consequences that follow taking even ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us.
19.
... almost certain
to have.
BB p.142,
To Employers
If he temporizes and still thinks he can ever drink again, even beer, he might as well be discharged after the next bender which, if an alcoholic, he is almost certain to have.
20.
... almost certainly
signs his own death warrant.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.
21.
... almost childish
faith that they could build ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
The Wright brothers'
almost childish faith that they could build a
machine which would fly was
the mainspring of their accomplishment.
22.
... almost discovered
the answer to alcoholism.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
The Washingtonian Society, a movement among alcoholics which started in Baltimore a century ago, almost discovered the answer to alcoholism.
23.
... almost entirely
of promoters was frightening.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
By temperament, nearly every one of us had been an irrepressible promoter, and the prospect of a society composed almost entirely of promoters
was frightening.
24.
... almost every
alcoholic has been marked by ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Now and then the family will be plagued by spectres from the past, for
the drinking career of
almost every alcoholic has been marked
by escapades, funny, humiliating, shameful
or tragic.
25.
... almost every
newsfront, the men and women ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
On almost every newsfront, the men and women of the press have attached themselves to
us as friends.
26.
... almost every
night.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
27.
Almost everyone
knows the reason.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
28.
Almost everyone
seemed to do it.
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
29.
... almost forgotten.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
They pointed out that the irresponsible had become responsible, and
that by making financial independence part of its tradition, Alcoholics Anonymous
had revived an ideal that
its era had almost forgotten.
30.
... almost frantically
upon alcoholics arriving in the ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Hence the two men set to work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in
the ward of the Akron City Hospital.
31.
Almost from
the beginning, we have been ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Almost from the beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers
could be based only on the desire to help and be helped.
32.
... almost from
the start.
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Never once in my life have I had a headache,
which fact leads me to believe that I was an alcoholic almost from the start.
33.
... almost hear
the sound of the preacher's ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance
pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the
preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke
of these things just before he died; these recollections welled
up from the past.
34.
... almost immediately
the donor's son became its ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
We had been presented with a hospital, and almost immediately the donor's
son became its principal patient and would-be manager.
35.
... almost indefinitely.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Such a roster of harms done others -- the kind that make daily living with us as practicing alcoholics
difficult and often unbearable -- could be extended almost indefinitely.
36.
... almost invariably
got well.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
But a few did, and when these laid hold of A.A. principles with all the
fervor with which the drowning seize life preservers, they almost invariably got well.
37.
... almost invariably
results in poor Catholics becoming ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
There is something spiritual about A.A. too, and
Catholic participation in it almost invariably results in poor Catholics becoming better Catholics."
38.
... almost invariably
temper such talk by a ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
We do talk about each other a great deal, but we almost invariably temper such talk by a spirit of love and tolerance.
39.
Almost invariably
they got drunk.
BB p.72,
Into Action
40.
... almost miserly.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
In our drinking time, we
acted as if the money supply was inexhaustible, though
between binges we'd sometimes go to the other extreme and become almost miserly.
41.
... almost never
recovered on their own resources.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
42.
... almost no
A.A. in our Fellowship breaks ...
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
It is significant, now
that almost no A.A. in our Fellowship breaks anonymity at the public level, that nearly all these fears have subsided.
43.
... almost no
alcoholic who is still drinking ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes
and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.
44.
Almost no
recovery from alcoholism has ever ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Almost no recovery from alcoholism has ever been brought about by the world's
best professionals,
whether medical or religious.
45.
Almost none
of us liked the self-searching, ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling
of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.
46.
... almost of
itself, and looking through it, ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which is an inscription.
47.
... almost owes
this recompense on a long ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
48.
... almost relive
the horrors of our past.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
49.
... almost sure
to make any wife or ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
A doctor said to us, "Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic.
50.
... almost the
only one!
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
The alcoholic's past thus becomes the principal asset of the family and frequently it
is almost the only one!
51.
... "almost the
only scoffers at prayer are ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
It has been well said that
"almost the only scoffers
at prayer are those who never tried it enough."
52.
"Almost timidly,
one of my friends began ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
53.
... almost total
inability to point imagination toward ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.
54.
... almost unbearable.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
55.
... almost unknown.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
56.
... almost unlimited
supply the government made it ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
At that time I was not aware
of the almost unlimited
supply the government
made it possible for us doctors to obtain, neither had I any knowledge of the bootlegger who soon appeared on the horizon.
57.
... almost welcomed
the idea.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
58.
Almost without
exception, alcoholics are tortured by ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
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