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... best.
BB
Working With Others, p.102
2.
... best.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
3.
... best.
12&12
Step Two, p.30
We gloated over the hypocrisy, bigotry, and crushing self-righteousness that clung
to so many 'believers' even in their Sunday best.
4.
... best?
12&12
Tradition Two, p.138
'Bill, haven't you often said right here in this meeting that sometimes the good is the enemy of the best?
5.
... best.
12&12
Tradition Nine (Long), p.191
6.
... best advocate.
12&12
Step One, p.24
7.
... best answer
this by relating one of ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
8.
... best answers
that our experience has yet ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the
best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay
whole and so survive?"
9.
... best bet.
12&12
Step Five, p.61
10.
... best boss
he ever had, and that ...
BB
To Employers, p.136
He left us a note saying you were the best boss he ever had, and that you were
not to blame in any way."
11.
... best colleges
in the country where drinking ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
After high school came four years in one of the best colleges in the country
where drinking seemed to
be a major extra-curricular activity.
12.
... best course.
BB
To Employers, p.142
13.
... best course
to take.
BB
Into Action, p.81
Though there may be justifiable exceptions, and though we
wish to lay down no rule
of any sort, we have often found this the best course to take.
14.
... best customers
away from you.
BB
To Employers, p.145
He may, for example, reveal
that he has padded his expense account or that he
has planned to take your
best customers away from you.
15.
... best deal
we can we let these ...
BB
Into Action, p.78
16.
... best efforts
of family, friends, doctors, and ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
Change of scene, the best efforts of family, friends, doctors, and clergymen got no place
with my alcoholism.
17.
... best, fall
far short of such achievements ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
18.
... best friend,
or spiritual adviser.
BB
How It Works, p.63
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.
19.
... best friends
of the very character defects ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety,
remorse, and depression; and how, unconsciously seeking
relief, they would sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they themselves were trying to
conceal.
20.
... best friends
to a snapping point, and ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.78
We've repeatedly strained the patience of
our best friends to a snapping point, and have brought out the very worst in those who didn't think much of us to begin with.
21.
... best function?"
and, "How can A.A. best ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the
best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay
whole and so survive?"
22.
... best he
had ever known!
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known!
23.
... best-intentioned of
us can fall for the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
24.
... best interests
of all concerned that a ...
BB
Working With Others, p.99
25.
... best judgment
of what has been right ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong, he
might make a rough survey of his conduct with respect to his primary instincts for sex, security, and society.
26.
... best known
American psychiatrists.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
27.
... best mathematical
minds had proved man could ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.51
28.
... best minds.
BB
We Agnostics, pp.54-55
Neither is reason, as most
of us use it, entirely dependable, though it emanate from our best minds.
29.
... best moments,
a producer of confusion rather ...
BB
How It Works, p.61
30.
... best moments
for the worst I have ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
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.
31.
... best not
to take sides in any ...
BB
To Wives, p.115
Unless they actually need protection from their father, it is best not to take sides in any argument he has with them while drinking.
32.
Best of
all, I met a kind ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
Best of all, I met a kind doctor who explained that though certainly selfish and foolish, I had been seriously ill, bodily and mentally.
33.
... best of
employers, can scarcely blame them ...
BB
To Employers, p.138
And we, who have imposed on the best of employers, can scarcely blame them if they
have been short with us.
34.
... best of
his ability our suggested Twelve ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.
35.
... best of
intentions, he tends to force ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.104
With the best of intentions, he tends to force his own will into all sorts of situations and problems
with the comfortable assurance that he is acting
under God's specific direction.
36.
... best of
them will sometimes let us ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
We had refused to learn the
very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable.
37.
... best of
today.
BB
We Agnostics, p.51
Students of ancient history tell us that the intellect of men in those days was equal to the best of today.
38.
... best of
us will discover to our ...
12&12
Step Six, p.66
Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a
sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."
39.
... best organizers
I have ever known.
BB
To Employers, p.137
I had been obliged to discharge him for drinking, though he was brilliant, alert, and one of the best organizers I have ever known.
40.
... best possible
attitude one can take in ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" -- is
A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime
job.
41.
... best possible
committees, corporate service directors, executives, ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
XI. The trustees should always have the best possible committees, corporate service directors, executives,
staffs, and consultants. Composition, qualifications, induction procedures,
and rights and duties will always be matters of serious concern.
42.
... best possible
medical attention, he should understand ...
BB
To Employers, p.143
Though you are providing
him with the best possible
medical attention, he
should understand that he must undergo a change of heart.
43.
... best possible
public relations policy for Alcoholics ...
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.180
Therefore, a great responsibility fell upon us to develop the best possible public relations policy for Alcoholics Anonymous.
44.
... best possible
relations with every human being ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.77
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have
been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
45.
... best possible
source of emotional stability to ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.116
When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself.
46.
... best press
agents.
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.181
It resulted in more favorable publicity of Alcoholics Anonymous
than could possibly have been obtained through all the arts and abilities of A.A.'s best press agents.
47.
... best professionals,
whether medical or religious.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.166
Almost no recovery from alcoholism
has ever been brought about
by the world's best professionals, whether
medical or religious.
48.
... best projects
when drunk; that the most ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.2
We had long talks when I would
still her forebodings by
telling her that men of genius conceived their best projects when drunk; that the most majestic
constructions of philosophic thought were
so derived.
49.
... best reason
first: If we skip this ...
BB
Into Action, p.72
50.
... best results
can be had under their ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. G. Kirby Collier, psychiatrist:
"I have felt that A.A. is a group unto themselves and their best results can be had under their
own guidance, as a result of their philosophy.
51.
... best salesmen
I ever had.
BB
To Employers, p.137
52.
... best sense
of the word.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.110
53.
... best serve
Thee -- Thy will (not mine) ...
BB
Into Action, p.85
54.
... best she
knows how, but meanwhile the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.118
The wife usually goes on doing the best she knows how, but meanwhile the alcoholic
alternately loves and hates her maternal care.
55.
... best stay
whole and so survive?"
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the
best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay
whole and so survive?"
56.
... best that
no one tell him he ...
BB
To Employers, p.144
When the man is presented
with this volume it is best
that no one tell him he must abide by its suggestions.
57.
... best to
drop the subject, but after ...
BB
To Wives, p.112
If this kind of approach
does not catch your husband's interest, it may
be best to drop the subject, but after a friendly talk your husband will usually revive the topic himself.
58.
... best to
live and work together as ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition One), p.9
Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles.
The group must survive or the individual
will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
59.
... best to
live and work together as ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.130
60.
... best understanding
of His will that we ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His will that we can have for that day,
and that we be given the grace
by which we may carry it out.
61.
... best way
of treating you to a ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.153
Perhaps the best way of treating you to a glimpse of your future will be to describe the growth of the fellowship among us.
62.
... best we
can do, with all the ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
63.
... best we
can, we try to ask ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
Having opened our channel
as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need.
64.
... best we
could; and the other, to ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.25
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could;
and the other, to accept spiritual help.
65.
... best we
know how to make progress ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
66.
... best we
know or can learn.
12&12
Step Six, p.65
The key words "entirely ready" underline the fact that we want to aim at the very best we know or can learn.
67.
... best will
do!'
12&12
Tradition Two, p.138
68.
... best work
grudgingly and under half steam.
12&12
Step Four, p.49
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