From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... 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
4.
... competent psychiatrists
who have dealt with us ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
Highly competent psychiatrists who have dealt with us have found it sometimes impossible
to persuade an alcoholic to discuss his
situation without reserve.
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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