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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DERIVE occurs
2 times
(
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1.
... derive no
real authority from their titles; ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Nine (Long)
They
derive no
real authority from their
titles; they do not
govern.
2.
... derive no
real authority from their titles; ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
They
derive no
real authority from their
titles; they do not
govern.
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