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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BEAT occurs
5 times
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1.
... beat him
back every time he tries ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Both his
pride and his
fear
beat him back every
time he
tries to
look within himself.
2.
... beat; our
world arteries would no longer ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Without
unity, the
heart of
A.A. would
cease to
beat; our
world arteries would no
longer carry the
life-
giving grace of
God; His
gift to us would be
spent aimlessly.
3.
... beat the
game.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
There is the
obsession that somehow,
someday, they will
beat the
game.
4.
... beat-up topers
could find needed care.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Now and then,
A.A. members
have
bought farms or
rest homes where
badly beat-up
topers could find
needed care.
5.
... beat us
into a state of reasonableness.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
It finally
beat us into a
state of
reasonableness.
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