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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ASIDE occurs
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1.
... aside.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
2.
... aside and
told the glorious news.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
I
drew her
aside and told the
glorious news.
3.
... aside, at
whatever personal cost.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
In the
radiance of such a
miraculous discovery,
any
doctor would
set his
other
ambitions aside, at
whatever
personal cost.
4.
... aside for
A.A. in the wills of ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
They
pointed out that the
Foundation board already
knew of a
total of
half a
million dollars set aside for
A.A. in the
wills of people still
alive.
5.
... aside for
that purpose.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
6.
... aside for
years all normal activities -- clubs, ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
7.
Aside from
fellowship and sociability, the prime ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Aside from
fellowship
and
sociability, the
prime object was to
provide a
time and place where
new people might bring their
problems.
8.
... aside in
favor of the foolish idea ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
Yet all
reasons for not
drinking were
easily pushed aside in
favor of the
foolish idea that he could take
whiskey if only he
mixed it
with
milk!
9.
... aside or
perhaps desert us entirely.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
This often
caused the people we had
loved most to
push us
aside or perhaps
desert us
entirely.
10.
... aside prejudice
and express even a willingness ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
We
found that as soon as we were able to
lay aside prejudice and
express
even a
willingness to
believe in a
Power greater than ourselves, we
commenced to get
results,
even though it was
impossible for any of us to
fully define or
comprehend that
Power,
which is
God.
11.
... aside prejudice,
even against organized religion.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We, who have
traveled this
dubious path,
beg you to
lay aside prejudice, even against
organized religion.
12.
... aside such
feelings.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Though some of us
resisted, we
found no
great difficulty in
casting
aside such
feelings.
13.
... aside the
drink question, they tell why ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
14.
... aside these
very human aspirations, we believe ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
As we
lay aside these very
human aspirations, we
believe that each of us
takes
part in the
weaving of a
protective mantle which
covers our
whole Society and under which we may
grow and
work in
unity.
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