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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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1.
... big alcoholic center, a kind of pilot ...   12&12 p.147, Tradition Four
They figured the town needed a great big alcoholic center, a kind of pilot plant A.A. groups could duplicate everywhere.


2.
... Big Book (A.A. members' fond nickname for ...   BB xii, Preface   Display entire Preface
All changes made over the years in the Big Book (A.A. members' fond nickname for this volume) have had the same purpose: to represent the current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and thereby to reach more alcoholics.

3.
... Big Book appeared in 1939, we called ...   12&12 p.184, Tradition Twelve
When the Big Book appeared in 1939, we called it "Alcoholics Anonymous."


4.
... big business.   BB p.136, To Employers   Go to page 136 in the Big Book
Among many employers nowadays, we think of one member who has spent much of his life in the world of big business.


5.
... big chunks of truth about yourself.   BB p.71, How It Works   Go to page 71 in the Big Book
That being so you have swallowed and digested some big chunks of truth about yourself.

6.
... big coin.   12&12 p.163, Tradition Seven
Somehow it looked like a very big coin.

7.
... big happy family.   12&12 p.177, Tradition Ten
Maybe this sounds as though the alcoholics in A.A. had suddenly gone peaceable, and become one great big happy family.

8.
... big hulk of a man.   12&12 p.152, Tradition Five
"I was soon sitting beside a big hulk of a man.

9.
... big lump that we can't begin to ...   12&12 p.113, Step Twelve
Then perhaps life, as it has a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest.

10.
... big lumps as they come.   12&12 p.114, Step Twelve
Like most people, we have found that we can take our big lumps as they come.

11.
... big setbacks at the time, but will ...   12&12 p.111, Step Twelve
These will appear as big setbacks at the time, but will be seen later as stepping-stones to better things.

12.
... big shot?   12&12 p.51, Step Four
Did I overvalue myself and play the big shot?

13.
... big shot.   12&12 p.92, Step Ten
Thus blinded by prideful self-confidence, we were apt to play the big shot.

14.
... big shot in cheap barrooms and then ...   12&12 p.116, Step Twelve
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.

15.
... "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by ...   12&12 p.92, Step Ten
As an insurance against "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is far more His success than ours.

16.
... big shot, we turned people against us.   12&12 p.47, Step Four
We had to see that every time we played the big shot, we turned people against us.


17.
... big that no equity should be left ...   BB p.131, The Family Afterward   Go to page 131 in the Big Book
The family may feel they hold a mortgage on dad, so big that no equity should be left for outsiders.

18.
... big-time trouble, and this would really do ...   12&12 p.159, Tradition Six
I certainly won't be the guy to land A.A. in big-time trouble, and this would really do it!"


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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