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


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1.
... 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   Go to page 22 in the Big Book
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
The considerations are equally true and important for the A.A.'s who marry "outside" A.A.

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.


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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