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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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... earn money, I would run out of ...   BB p.176, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 175 in the Big Book
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.


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... earn more money, and so on ad ...   BB p.177, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 177 in the Big Book
It was really a horrible nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.

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... earn their livelihood in a kind of ...   12&12 p.155, Tradition Six
We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.

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... earn what they get.   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
We pay them well, and they earn what they get.


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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