From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... cut across
every barrier of race, creed, ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Could any then imagine a society which would include
every conceivable kind of character, and cut across every barrier of race, creed, politics, and language
with ease?
2.
... cut away
the self-will which has always ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for
it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power -- into our lives.
3.
... cut corners
financially?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
4.
... cut directions
are given showing how we ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
5.
... cut idea
of what has actually happened ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in their lives.
6.
... cut it
out.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
7.
... cut me
to ribbons.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
Out of this alloy of drink and speculation, I
commenced to forge the
weapon that one day would turn in its flight like a boomerang and all but
cut me to ribbons.
8.
... cut of
all.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
This was the unkindest cut of all.
9.
... cut off
from God's help and direction.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
All this should be very encouraging news for those who recoil from prayer because they don't believe in it, or because
they feel themselves
cut off from God's help and direction.
10.
... cut off
the supply of current.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
We are delighted with this dependence; our main hope is that nothing will ever cut off the supply of current.
11.
... cut off,
then the Foundation would one ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
If outside donations
weren't declined, absolutely cut off, then
the Foundation would one
day become rich.
12.
... cut themselves
off, those who have become ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
There will be those who have
drifted into indifference, those filled with self-sufficiency who have cut
themselves off, those
who have become prejudiced against religion, and those who are
downright defiant because God has failed to fulfill their demands.
13.
... cut us
down.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.
14.
... cut us
off, nearly all of us ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered
the feeling that we didn't quite belong.
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