From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... deliberately break
anonymity at the public level.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
2.
... deliberately, instead
of casually, there was little ...
BB p.37,
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We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead of casually, there was little
serious or effective
thought during the period of premeditation of what the terrific consequences
might be.
3.
... deliberately set
aside for that purpose.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
The consideration of long-standing difficulties had better
be postponed, when possible, to times deliberately set aside for that purpose.
4.
... deliberately to
get drunk, feeling ourselves justified ...
BB p.37,
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In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by
nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
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