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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DIVERT occurs
5 times
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1.
... divert A.A.
from its primary purpose.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
The
pressure of that
fat treasury would
surely tempt the
board to
invent all
kinds of
schemes to do
good with such
funds, and so
divert A.A. from
its primary purpose.
2.
... divert us
from our primary purpose."
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
3.
... divert us
from our primary purpose.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
4.
... divert us
from our primary spiritual aim.
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
5.
... divert us
from our primary spiritual aim.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
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