From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... bad.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
2.
... bad.
BB p.76,
Into Action
When ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.
3.
... bad account
and start fresh with him?
BB p.145,
To Employers
4.
... bad actors.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
We search for an easier way -- which usually consists of the general
and fairly painless admission that when drinking we were sometimes bad actors.
5.
... bad and
people began to cut us ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered
the feeling that we didn't quite belong.
6.
... bad, and
that ended the beer experiment.
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
7.
... bad as
ever.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
8.
... bad boy.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
9.
... bad case
of D.T.'s, he's pretty foggy, ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
10.
... bad case
of jitters.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
We first saw Fred about a year ago in a hospital where he had
gone to recover from a
bad case of jitters.
11.
... bad case
of jitters if you get ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
12.
... bad effect
on him, too.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
When an A.A. talks for money, whether at a meeting or to a single newcomer, it can have a very
bad effect on him, too.
13.
... bad enough,
he thinks, to admit alcohol ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
14.
... bad for
him and bad for me.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I realized that my five-dollar gift to the slippee was an ego-feeding proposition,
bad for him and bad for me.
15.
... bad for
me.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I realized that my five-dollar gift to the slippee was an ego-feeding proposition,
bad for him and bad for me.
16.
... bad health,
and those who seldom play, ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
17.
... bad-intentioned, that
no amount of patience will ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
We realize some men are thoroughly bad-intentioned, that no amount of patience will make any difference.
18.
... bad motive
underneath a good one, permeates ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom.
19.
... bad one,
but I would not exchange ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
My old manner of life was by no means a bad one, but I would not exchange
its best moments for the worst I have
now.
20.
... bad repute
and hopelessness?
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
21.
... bad result.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
This lack of anchorage to
any permanent values, this blindness to
the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result.
22.
... bad taste.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
23.
... bad thing
in some cases.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Though it is infinitely better that he
have no relapse at all, as
has been true with many of our
men, it is by no means a bad thing in some cases.
24.
... bad time
of it in our world.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
25.
... bad, to
the abnormal action of alcohol ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
But these scrapes can generally be charged, no matter how bad, to the abnormal action of alcohol on his mind.
26.
... bad to
worse until sophomore spring when, ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This went from bad to worse until sophomore spring when, after a prolonged period of drinking, I made up my mind that I could not complete my course, so I packed my grip and went South to spend a month on a large farm owned by a friend of mine.
27.
... bad, we
arouse anger in others.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
28.
... bad, we
have frequently been abashed to ...
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
Because our surface record hasn't looked too
bad, we have frequently
been abashed to find that
this is so simply because
we have buried these selfsame defects deep down in us under thick layers of self-justification.
29.
... bad, when
in fact we were mainly ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
We were depressed and complained we felt bad, when in fact we were mainly asking for sympathy and attention.
30.
... bad, you
become a trembling recluse, wishing ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
When your husband is bad,
you become a trembling
recluse, wishing the telephone had never been invented.
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