From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... equally clear
that we shall always need ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is clear now that we ought never to name boards to govern us, but it is equally clear that we shall always need to authorize workers to serve us.
2.
... equally necessary
that we extricate from an ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is
equally necessary that we
extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties that we can.
3.
... equally plain
that we couldn't be a ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Our growth made it plain that we couldn't be a secret society, but it was
equally plain that we
couldn't be a vaudeville circuit, either.
4.
... equally positive
that once he takes any ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We are equally positive
that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system,
something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.
5.
... equally true
and important for the A.A.'s ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
6.
... equally unfortunate.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
When we had taken the opposite tack and had insisted, like infants ourselves, that
people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result had
been equally unfortunate.
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