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

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EVERYBODY   occurs   26 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... everybody.   12&12 p.92, Step Ten
Not many people can truthfully assert that they love everybody.

2.
... everybody.   12&12 p.152, Tradition Five
He's had a bad case of D.T.'s, he's pretty foggy, and he's very suspicious of everybody.

3.
... everybody, and everybody expected that he'd soon ...   12&12 p.143, Tradition Three
He browbeat everybody, and everybody expected that he'd soon get drunk -- for at the time, you see, A.A. was on the pious side.

4.
... everybody away and our isolation had become ...   12&12 p.116, Step Twelve
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.


5.
Everybody believes them without a murmur of ...   BB p.48, We Agnostics   Go to page 48 in the Big Book
Everybody believes them without a murmur of doubt.

6.
... everybody can have all the security and ...   12&12 p.71, Step Seven
Poverty will disappear, and there will be such abundance that everybody can have all the security and personal satisfactions he desires.

7.
... everybody does when afraid.   12&12 p.140, Tradition Three
Naturally, we began to act like most everybody does when afraid.

8.
... everybody else how.   12&12 p.156, Tradition Six
Having learned to live so happily, we'd show everybody else how.


9.
... everybody else, we were afflicted with pride, ...   BB p.116, To Wives   Go to page 116 in the Big Book
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above selfishness or dishonesty.

10.
... everybody expected that he'd soon get drunk ...   12&12 p.143, Tradition Three
He browbeat everybody, and everybody expected that he'd soon get drunk -- for at the time, you see, A.A. was on the pious side.

11.
... everybody -- friends, wives, husbands, even the world ...   12&12 p.115, Step Twelve
We had failed to see that though adult in years we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody -- friends, wives, husbands, even the world itself -- into protective parents.

12.
Everybody gains, and we have lost nothing.   12&12 p.171, Tradition Eight
Everybody gains, and we have lost nothing.


13.
Everybody had given them up.   BB p.113, To Wives   Go to page 113 in the Big Book
Everybody had given them up.

14.
Everybody had to confess his own.   12&12 p.56, Step Five
Everybody had to confess his own.


15.
... everybody hopefully awaits the day when the ...   BB p.23, There Is A Solution   Go to page 23 in the Big Book
In a vague way their families and friends sense that these drinkers are abnormal, but everybody hopefully awaits the day when the sufferer will rouse himself from his lethargy and assert his power of will.


16.
Everybody, including himself, would be pleased.   BB p.61, How It Works   Go to page 61 in the Big Book
Everybody, including himself, would be pleased.

17.
... everybody is infected with it.   12&12 p.67, Step Six
To a greater or less degree, everybody is infected with it.

18.
... everybody knew what that meant!   12&12 p.144, Tradition Three
He'd sent a telegram for money, and everybody knew what that meant!

19.
Everybody knows that active alcoholics scream that ...   12&12 p.160, Tradition Seven
Everybody knows that active alcoholics scream that they have no troubles money can't cure.


20.
Everybody knows that those in bad health, ...   BB p.132, The Family Afterward   Go to page 132 in the Big Book
Everybody knows that those in bad health, and those who seldom play, do not laugh much.


21.
Everybody likes him.   BB p.35, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 35 in the Big Book
Everybody likes him.


22.
Everybody nowadays, believes in scores of assumptions ...   BB p.48, We Agnostics   Go to page 48 in the Big Book
Everybody nowadays, believes in scores of assumptions for which there is good evidence, but no perfect visual proof.

23.
... everybody's primary instincts are satisfied, there won't ...   12&12 p.71, Step Seven
The theory seems to be that once everybody's primary instincts are satisfied, there won't be much left to quarrel about.

24.
... everybody to see that each sober A.A. ...   12&12 p.64, Step Six
It is plain for everybody to see that each sober A.A. member has been granted a release from this very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.

25.
Everybody was scared witless that something or ...   12&12 p.139, Tradition Three
Everybody was scared witless that something or somebody would capsize the boat and dump us all back into the drink.

26.
... everybody wishes to be rid of his ...   12&12 p.66, Step Six
Practically everybody wishes to be rid of his most glaring and destructive handicaps.


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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