From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... defiance.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
2.
... defiance is
the outstanding characteristic of many ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
"As psychiatrists have often observed, defiance is the outstanding
characteristic of many an alcoholic.
3.
... defiance often
prove more solid and formidable ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
The roadblocks of indifference, fancied
self-sufficiency, prejudice, and defiance often prove more solid and formidable for these people than any erected by the unconvinced agnostic
or even the militant atheist.
4.
... defiance was
revealed.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
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