From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... childish.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
2.
... childish, emotionally
sensitive, and grandiose.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
These distinguished men had the nerve to say that most of the alcoholics under investigation were still childish, emotionally sensitive, and grandiose.
3.
... childish faith
that they could build a ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
The Wright brothers' almost childish faith that they could build a
machine which would fly was
the mainspring of their accomplishment.
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