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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club; in
the second story they would
sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project -- quite noncontroversial, of course.
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When they become too dangerous, we think the kind thing is to lock them up, but of course a good doctor should always be consulted.
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Of course an alcoholic ought to be freed from his physical craving for liquor, and this often requires a definite hospital procedure, before psychological measures can be of maximum
benefit.
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Here we need only recognize that we did act or think badly, try to visualize how we might
have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
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Such prayers, of course, are fundamentally good acts, but often they are based upon a supposition that we
know God's will for the person for whom we
pray.
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These are the growing group's hierarchy of service -- self-appointed, of course, because there is no other way.
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One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading
this book in manuscript form told us that the use of sweets was often helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's advice.
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For most of us, self-justification was the maker of excuses; excuses, of course, for drinking, and for all kinds of
crazy and damaging conduct.
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If you and your husband find
a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.
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Of course he couldn't drink,
but why not sit hopefully at a table, a bottle of ginger ale before him?
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Of course I would!
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More experienced people, of course, in all times and places have practiced unsparing self-survey and criticism.
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This, of course, is the process by which instinct
and logic always seek to bolster egotism, and so frustrate
spiritual development.
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Of course, it is reasonable and understandable that the question is often asked: "Why can't we take a specific and troubling dilemma straight to God, and in prayer secure from Him sure and definite answers to our requests?"
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Of course it was.
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Some people, of course, may conclude that they are indeed
ready to have all such defects taken from them.
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After satisfying yourself that your man wants to recover and that he will go to any
extreme to do so, you may suggest a definite course of action.
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The two friends spoke of their spiritual experience and told him about
the course of action they carried out.
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We shall want to hold ourselves to the course of admitting the things we have done, meanwhile forgiving the
wrongs done us, real or fancied.
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In the course of his third treatment he acquired certain ideas concerning a possible means of recovery.
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Therefore, the first portion of this volume, describing the A.A. recovery program, has been
left largely untouched in the course of revisions made for the second, third, and fourth editions.
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Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many
of us had never attempted.
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The wording was, of course,
quite optional so long as we expressed the idea, voicing it without reservation.
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This went from bad to worse until sophomore spring when, after a prolonged period of drinking, I made up my mind that I could not complete
my course, so I packed my grip and went South to spend a month on a large farm owned by a friend of mine.
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I was, of course, soon on the carpet and the upshot was that
I had to go back for two more quarters and remain absolutely dry, if I wished to graduate.
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This meant, of course, that we
had been given the courage
to declare each A.A. group an individual entity, strictly reliant on its own conscience as a guide to action.
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You are betting, of course,
that your changed attitude plus the contents of this book will turn the trick.
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Of course the depressive
and the power-driver are personality extremes, types with which A.A. and the whole world abound.
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As soon as his sobriety begins to be taken as a matter of course, the family may look at their strange new dad with apprehension, then
with irritation.
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Of course, the often disputed question of whether God can -- and will, under certain conditions -- remove defects of character will be answered with a prompt affirmative by almost any A.A. member.
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Of course the sponsor points out that our friend's life is still unmanageable even though he is sober, that after all, only a bare start on A.A.'s program has been made.
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Of course, there couldn't be the slightest objection if such an association hired an A.A. member solely because of his public relations ability and his
knowledge of alcoholism.
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Of course, there is such a thing as incompatibility, but in nearly every instance the alcoholic
only seems to be unloving
and inconsiderate; it is usually because he is warped and sickened that he
says and does these appalling things.
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After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic run-around -- provided, of course, they are
willing to have a third party in the picture.
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Of course, this isn't so at all.
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Of course, this won't do.
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Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by.
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Though there may be justifiable exceptions, and though we
wish to lay down no rule
of any sort, we have often found this the best course to take.
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Of course we couldn't.
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Of course we finally did experiment, and when unexpected results followed, we felt different; in fact we knew different; and so we were
sold on meditation and prayer.
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Those of us belonging to a
religious denomination which requires confession must, and of course, will want to go to the properly appointed authority whose duty it is to receive it.
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They even had to coin a couple of sentences which still go into half the letters they write: "Of course, you are at perfect liberty to handle this matter any way you please.
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