From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
COMPETENT occurs
5 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... competent and
you can learn much from ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Ministers and
doctors
are
competent and you can
learn much from them if you
wish, but it
happens that
because of your
own drinking experience you
can be
uniquely useful
to other
alcoholics.
2.
... competent businessman
of good earning capacity, was ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
In
late 1934 I
attended a
patient who,
though he had been a
competent businessman of
good earning capacity, was an
alcoholic of a
type I had
come to
regard as
hopeless.
3.
... competent hands,
this seldom takes long nor ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
In
competent hands, this
seldom takes long nor is it very
expensive.
4.
... competent psychiatrists
who have dealt with us ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
5.
... competent to
give or ought not give ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Perhaps we
try to
give them
advice about their
affairs
which we aren't really
competent to
give or ought not
give at all.
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