From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... depart empty
handed with none of what ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Without this proof the expectant purchaser
would be forced to depart empty handed with none of what I later came to believe was the great panacea for all human ills.
2.
... depart from
the degree of perfection that ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
When they drive us blindly, or we willfully
demand that they supply us
with more satisfactions or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is
the point at which we depart
from the degree of perfection that God wishes for us here on earth.
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