From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... early A.A.
members resolved to keep our ...
12&12 p.179,
Tradition Ten
As we surveyed the wreck
of that movement, early A.A. members resolved to keep our Society out of public controversy.
2.
... early and
wonderful friend of A.A., died ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
3.
... early days
of our drinking we occasionally ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
In the early days of our drinking we occasionally remained
sober for a year or more, becoming serious drinkers again later.
4.
... early days
of our Society appears in ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.
5.
... early educational
activities.
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
The town was well supplied with churches
and schools in which I pursued my early educational activities.
6.
... early fears.
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
7.
... early gave
us a sign that any ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
So the hand of Providence early gave us a sign that any alcoholic is a member of our Society when
he says so.
8.
... early group,
those scores have since multiplied ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
9.
... early in
our drinking careers most of ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
Though there is no way of proving it, we believe that early in our drinking careers most of
us could have stopped drinking.
10.
... early in
the morning shaking violently.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
11.
... early medical
and religious friends will be ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Some of the recommendations of A.A.'s early medical and religious friends will be found further on in this book.
12.
... early members
foresaw that they should dedicate ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
13.
... early morning
truck, for it was scarcely ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
I hardly dared cross the street, lest I collapse and be run down by an early morning truck, for it was scarcely
daylight.
14.
... early next
morning he searches madly for ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
15.
... early text
"twos and threes and fives ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Already," continues
the early text "twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities."
16.
... early time,
nothing seemed so fragile, so ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
17.
... early times.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
18.
... early times,
we were all broke.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
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