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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CORRECT occurs
4 times
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1.
... correct.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
One of these
men,
staff member of a
world-
renowned hospital,
recently made this
statement to some of us: "What you say about the
general hopelessness
of the
average alcoholic's
plight is, in
my
opinion,
correct.
2.
... correct these
conditions and found that we ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We
thought "
conditions"
drove us to
drink, and when we
tried to
correct these
conditions
and
found that we couldn't to our
entire satisfaction,
our
drinking went out of
hand and we
became alcoholics.
3.
... correct these
flaws is the essence of ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
4.
... correct what
is wrong.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
For the
wise have always
known that no one can make much of his
life until
self-
searching becomes a
regular habit, until he is
able to
admit and
accept
what he
finds, and until he
patiently and
persistently tries to
correct what is
wrong.
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