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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.


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... early and wonderful friend of A.A., died ...   BB p.572(574), Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix V
(*) Father Ed, an early and wonderful friend of A.A., died in the spring of 1960.


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... early days of our drinking we occasionally ...   BB p.34, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 34 in the Big Book
In the early days of our drinking we occasionally remained sober for a year or more, becoming serious drinkers again later.


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... early days of our Society appears in ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire 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.

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... early fears.   12&12 p.184, Tradition Twelve
But in the beginning, anonymity was not born of confidence; it was the child of our early fears.

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... 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.

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... early group, those scores have since multiplied ...   12&12 p.142, Tradition Three
Since this was a very early group, those scores have since multiplied themselves into thousands.


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... early in our drinking careers most of ...   BB p.32, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 32 in the Big Book
Though there is no way of proving it, we believe that early in our drinking careers most of us could have stopped drinking.


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... early in the morning shaking violently.   BB p.5, Bill's Story   Go to page 5 in the Big Book
This went on endlessly, and I began to waken very early in the morning shaking violently.


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... early medical and religious friends will be ...   BB xx, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire 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.

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... early members foresaw that they should dedicate ...   12&12 p.178, Tradition Ten
The early members foresaw that they should dedicate themselves to this sole aim.


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... early morning truck, for it was scarcely ...   BB p.6, Bill's Story   Go to page 6 in the Big Book
I hardly dared cross the street, lest I collapse and be run down by an early morning truck, for it was scarcely daylight.


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... early next morning he searches madly for ...   BB p.21, There Is A Solution   Go to page 21 in the Big Book
Yet early next morning he searches madly for the bottle he misplaced the night before.


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... early text "twos and threes and fives ...   BB xv, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Already," continues the early text "twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities."

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... early time, nothing seemed so fragile, so ...   12&12 p.139, Tradition Three
In our early time, nothing seemed so fragile, so easily breakable as an A.A. group.


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... early times.   BB p.27, There Is A Solution   Go to page 27 in the Big Book
Exceptions to cases such as yours have been occurring since early times.

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... early times, we were all broke.   12&12 p.160, Tradition Seven
In early times, we were all broke.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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