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1.
... based, and after a large amount of ...   12&12 p.16, Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most workable tenets upon which the Society could be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover, three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.

2.
... based foursquare on the single purpose of ...   12&12 p.153, Tradition Five
It was based foursquare on the single purpose of A.A.

3.
... based on attraction rather than promotion; we ...   12&12 p.180, Tradition Eleven
"Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films."


4.
... based on attraction rather than promotion; we ...   BB p.562(564), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Eleven -- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.

5.
... based on his own experience, of course.   12&12 p.27, Step Two
"This is only one man's opinion based on his own experience, of course.


6.
... based on self which later placed us ...   BB p.62, How It Works   Go to page 62 in the Big Book
Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.


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... based on the kinship of common suffering; ...   BB p.571(573), Appendix IV, The Lasker Award   Display entire Appendix IV
"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."

8.
... based only on the desire to help ...   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.


9.
... based only upon forgetfulness of the past.   BB p.124, The Family Afterward   Go to page 123 in the Big Book
The family may be possessed by the idea that future happiness can be based only upon forgetfulness of the past.

10.
... based upon a supposition that we know ...   12&12 p.104, Step Eleven
Such prayers, of course, are fundamentally good acts, but often they are based upon a supposition that we know God's will for the person for whom we pray.


11.
... based upon attraction rather than promotion.   BB xix, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Our public relations were to be based upon attraction rather than promotion.


12.
... based upon experience, some of it painful.   BB p.121, To Wives   Go to page 121 in the Big Book
But what we have related is based upon experience, some of it painful.

13.
... based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires are ...   12&12 p.76, Step Seven
We have seen that character defects based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires are the obstacles that block our path toward these objectives.

14.
... based upon that alone, wouldn't be nearly ...   12&12 p.59, Step Five
Hence it was most evident that a solitary self-appraisal, and the admission of our defects based upon that alone, wouldn't be nearly enough.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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