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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EDUCATION occurs
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1.
... education.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
Some of the
great distilling companies
proposed to go into the
field of
alcohol education.
2.
... education.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
They'd be out with
lanterns looking for an
honest A.A. to
plump for their
brand of
education.
3.
... education.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
4.
... education.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
5.
... education and
training may be far superior ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
His
religious education
and
training may be far
superior to yours.
6.
... education, and
when they began to publicly ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
A.A. groups had their
fling at
education, and when
they
began to
publicly whoop up the
merits of this or
that
brand, people
became
confused.
7.
... education, but
doubted if they were alcoholics.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
It was
found that some
drunks yearned for
education, but
doubted if they
were
alcoholics.
8.
... education, for
thus you will be learning ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
These
work-
outs should be
regarded as
part of your
education, for thus you will be
learning to
live.
9.
... education had
come to sticky ends elsewhere.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
By his
eloquence he
allayed all
fears,
despite advice from the
Foundation that it could
issue no
charter, and that
ventures which
mixed an
A.A. group with
medication and
education
had
come to
sticky ends elsewhere.
10.
... education, hospitals,
and rehabilitation?
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
Suppose my
answer had to
be that
A.A. needed a
lot of
money; that
A.A. went in for
education,
hospitals, and
rehabilitation?
11.
... education --
liquor trade association style.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
It would be
bound to
appear
that
A.A. was now
backing
education --
liquor trade association style.
12.
... education on
the third floor.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some would
start at the
top
and
come through to the
bottom,
becoming club members; others
started in the
club,
pitched a
binge, were
hospitalized, then
graduated to
education on
the
third floor.
13.
... education seems
good to me, and is ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
The
kind of
education seems good to me, and is not too
controversial.
14.
... education to
blow ourselves up into prideful ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
We used our
education to
blow
ourselves up into
prideful balloons, though we were
careful to
hide this from
others.
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