From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... answer.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
2.
... answer.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
3.
... answer.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Had they been left to themselves, and had they stuck to their one goal, they might have found the
rest of the answer.
4.
... answer.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
At this altitude (press,
radio, films, and television), anonymity
-- 100 percent anonymity -- was the only possible answer.
5.
... answer.
BB p.144,
To Employers
6.
... answer.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
7.
... answer and
program of action which a ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
"Then they outlined the spiritual answer and program of action which a hundred of them had followed successfully.
8.
... answer be
-- yes or no?"
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
9.
... answer enough
for any alcoholic.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
10.
... answer for
alcoholism, it was reasonable (or ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The moment we saw that we had
an answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or so it seemed at the time) for us to
feel that we might have the answer to a lot of other things.
11.
... answer for
sufferers of this disease.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Alcoholics Anonymous can be likened
to a group of physicians who might find a
cure for cancer, and upon whose concerted work would depend the answer for sufferers of this disease.
12.
... answer for
that one.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
13.
... answer for
you.
BB p.110,
To Wives
14.
... answer for
you.
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
But if you really and truly
want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely
feel that you must have some
help, we know that we have an
answer for you.
15.
... answer had
to be that A.A. needed ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
Suppose my answer had to be
that A.A. needed a lot of money; that A.A. went in for education, hospitals,
and rehabilitation?
16.
... answer has
to do with the quality ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
17.
... answer he
felt as though he lived ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
18.
... answer I
could make was that if ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
The only answer I could make
was that if the man followed the usual pattern, he would go on a bigger bust than ever.
19.
... answer is
in still more spiritual development.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
20.
... answer is
"No.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
21.
... answer is
that few people will sincerely ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom.
22.
... answer is
that since these things have ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
23.
... answer is
"Yes, notwithstanding the apparent lack ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
24.
... answer its
telephone, but it was an ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Even more important, an empty club couldn't answer its telephone, but it was an
open invitation to a drunk on a binge who possessed a spare key.
25.
... answer may
begin to find one in ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as
yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
26.
... answer, now
seen in Tradition Three, was ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
27.
... answer --
self-knowledge.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
28.
... answer such
questions specifically.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
29.
... answer, that
he has no attitude of ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the man who is making
the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with
a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that
there are no fees to pay, no axes
to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found
most effective.
30.
... answer the
riddle.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We cannot answer the riddle.
31.
... answer these
questions satisfactorily, you need have ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
32.
... answer this
by relating one of my ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
33.
... answer this
question with a loud "No!"
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
34.
... answer to
a lot of other things.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The moment we saw that we had
an answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or so it seemed at the time) for us to
feel that we might have the answer to a lot of other things.
35.
... 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.
36.
... answer to
all my problems today.
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
37.
... answer to
it is apparent to us.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
38.
... answer to
my liquor problem.
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My wife became deeply interested, and it
was her interest that sustained mine, though I at no time sensed that it might be an
answer to my liquor problem.
39.
... answer to
our satisfaction, we then look ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
40.
... answer to
these questions.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
41.
... answer to
these questions about living is ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
42.
... answer to
which may be only in ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
43.
... answer was
'My own sobriety and a ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
44.
... answer we
had found.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
45.
... answer which
can fit all such dilemmas.
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
46.
... answer will
come, if we want it.
BB p.69,
How It Works
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