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CHANCE occurs
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[22 in BB ... 12 in 12&12]
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1.
... chance.
BB
Working With Others, p.96
He
often says that if he had
continued to
work on them, he
might have
deprived many others, who have since
recovered, of their
chance.
2.
... chance.
BB
To Employers, p.136
I had
warned him
several times that he had but
one more chance.
3.
... chance."
BB
To Employers, p.138
4.
... chance.
BB
To Employers, p.138
He might have a chance.
5.
... chance.
BB
To Employers, p.147
If, on the
contrary, you are
sure he is
doing his
utmost, you may
wish to
give him
another chance.
6.
... chance.
BB
To Employers, p.148
If he
wants to
stop, he should
be
afforded a
real chance.
7.
... chance.
BB
To Employers, p.148
We
think we are
sensible
when we
urge that you
stop this
waste and
give your
worthwhile man a
chance.
8.
... chance.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
But when we are
willing to
place spiritual growth first -- then and only
then do we have a
real chance.
9.
... chance at
A.A. was sometimes to pronounce ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Three), p.10
10.
... chance for
legitimate security and a happy ...
12&12
Step Four, p.44
11.
... chance for
recovery!
BB
Into Action, p.73
12.
... chance for
sobriety that we've had.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.139
We
just want to be
sure that you
get the
same great chance for
sobriety that we've
had.
13.
... chance for
sobriety would be some place ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
His only
chance for
sobriety
would be some
place like the
Greenland Ice Cap, and
even there an
Eskimo might
turn up with a
bottle of
scotch and
ruin everything!
14.
... chance from
the moment it determined to ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.178
15.
... chance he
can recover by himself.
BB
Working With Others, p.92
But
insist that if he is
severely afflicted, there
may be
little chance he can
recover by
himself.
16.
... chance if
we switch from "two-stepping" to ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
17.
... chance of
accomplishing anything useful may be ...
BB
To Wives, p.111
If he
gets the
idea that you are
a
nag or a
killjoy, your
chance of
accomplishing anything useful may be
zero.
18.
... chance of
becoming truly happy.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
19.
... chance of
being helpful.
BB
How It Works, p.67
If we do, we
destroy our
chance of
being helpful.
20.
... chance of
being helpful if you do.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
You may
spoil your
chance of
being helpful if you do.
21.
... chance of
getting what we really wanted.
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
22.
... chance of
letting self-appointed members present themselves ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.187
23.
... chance of
making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
24.
... chance of
recovery.
BB
To Wives, p.120
25.
... chance of
recovery.
BB
To Employers, p.145
26.
... chance of
success.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
If he is a
real alcoholic
and
very far advanced, there is
scant chance of
success.
27.
... chance of
understanding and accepting what we ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, pp.xxvi-xxvii
More often than not, it is
imperative that a
man's
brain be
cleared before he is
approached, as
he has then a
better chance of
understanding and
accepting what we have to
offer.
28.
... chance that
the head of the family ...
BB
Working With Others, p.97
29.
... chance to
right a serious wrong.
12&12
Step Nine, p.85
30.
... chance to
think it over.
BB
Working With Others, p.95
Give him a
chance to
think it
over.
31.
... chance to
try our method, unless the ...
BB
To Wives, p.114
32.
... chance vanished.
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
Then I
went on a
prodigious bender, and that
chance vanished.
33.
... chance was
sometimes to pronounce his death ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
34.
... chance we
were given the power to ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
It is not by
chance we were
given the
power to
reason, to
examine the
evidence of our
senses, and
to
draw conclusions.
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