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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EFFORTS occurs
5 times
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1.
... efforts as much as you possibly can.
BB p.119,
To Wives
You should
join in his
efforts
as much as you
possibly can.
2.
... efforts at control, and continue to fail, ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
3.
... efforts at flight failed before?
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Had not all
efforts at
flight failed before?
4.
... efforts of family, friends, doctors, and clergymen ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
Change of
scene, the
best efforts of
family,
friends,
doctors, and
clergymen
got no place with my
alcoholism.
5.
... efforts to see how many people he ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
To a
degree, he has already done this when
taking moral inventory, but now the
time
has
come when he ought to
redouble his
efforts to see
how many people he has
hurt, and in what
ways.
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