From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... century ago,
almost discovered the answer to ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
The Washingtonian Society, a movement among alcoholics which started in Baltimore a
century ago, almost discovered the answer to alcoholism.
2.
... century, American
newspapers were afraid to print ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Even in the present century, American newspapers were afraid to
print an account of the Wright brothers' first successful flight at Kitty Hawk.
3.
... century, and
it characterizes the lives of ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
It has been validated in every century, and it characterizes the lives
of all spiritually centered and truly religious people.
4.
... century has
been the explosion of translations ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
Literature has played
a major role in A.A.'s growth, and a striking phenomenon of
the past quarter-century has been the explosion
of translations of our basic literature into many languages and dialects.
5.
... century; politicians
and reformers who are sure ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest
of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all
and is locked up.
6.
... century readily
accepts theories of all kinds, ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Nevertheless, the twentieth century readily accepts theories of all kinds, provided they are firmly grounded in fact.
7.
... century than
in all the millenniums which ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
This world of ours has made more material progress in the
last century than in all the
millenniums which went
before.
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