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


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... carried on without heated argument, self-pity, self-justification ...   BB p.127, The Family Afterward   Go to page 127 in the Big Book
These family talks will be constructive if they can be carried on without heated argument, self-pity, self-justification or resentful criticism.


2.
... carried out.   BB p.157, A Vision For You   Go to page 157 in the Big Book
The two friends spoke of their spiritual experience and told him about the course of action they carried out.


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... carried over, eleven new ones have been ...   BB xii, Preface   Display entire Preface
Six of the stories in Part II have been carried over, eleven new ones have been added, and eleven taken out.


4.
... carried over from the second edition; eight ...   BB xii, Preface   Display entire Preface
Nine of the stories in Part II ("They Stopped in Time") were carried over from the second edition; eight new stories were added.


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... carried the A.A. message to more than ...   BB p.171, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 171 in the Big Book
To 1950, the year of his death, he carried the A.A. message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men and women, and to all these he gave his medical services without thought of charge.

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... carried their message to still others.   12&12 p.17, Foreword
With the publication of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" in 1939, the pioneering period ended and a prodigious chain reaction set in as the recovered alcoholics carried their message to still others.

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... carried this significant sentence: "Any two or ...   12&12 p.146, Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence: "Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."


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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