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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
We would not believe that our adult dreams were often truly childish.

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... 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.


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... childish faith that they could build a ...   BB p.52, We Agnostics   Go to page 52 in the Big Book
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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