From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... exactly.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We, who have been through the wringer, have to admit if we
substituted alcoholism for jay-walking, the illustration would fit us
exactly.
2.
... exactly as
it pleases, except when A.A. ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
But in relation to us, it means very simply that every A.A. group can manage its affairs exactly as it pleases, except when A.A. as a whole is threatened.
3.
... exactly, can
the willing person continue to ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
So how, exactly, can the willing person continue to turn his will and his life over to the Higher Power?
4.
... exactly five
o'clock and it was eleven ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
5.
... exactly how
can he turn his own ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can he turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is?
6.
... exactly how
it happened.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
7.
... exactly how
to relax.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
8.
... exactly how,
when, and where our natural ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
9.
... exactly in
the middle of the wet-dry ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
10.
... exactly like
the individual, must eventually conform ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
We saw that the group, exactly like the individual, must eventually conform to whatever tested principles would guarantee survival.
11.
... exactly that.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
12.
... exactly that
type.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
13.
... exactly the
same: Our single purpose has ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Every time we have tried to professionalize our Twelfth Step, the result has been exactly the same: Our single purpose has been defeated.
14.
... exactly the
same path to recovery that ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
The Twelve Steps that summarize the program may
be called los Doce Pasos in one country, les Douze Etapes in another, but they
trace exactly the same path to recovery that was blazed by
the earliest members of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
15.
... exactly the
same thing with our lives.
BB p.64,
How It Works
16.
... exactly the
way it is supposed to ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some
fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
17.
... exactly the
wrong moment, particularly when some ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He has a positive genius
for getting tight at exactly the wrong moment, particularly
when some important decision must be made or engagement kept.
18.
... exactly what
happened to you.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
19.
... exactly what
personality traits in us injured ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human relations, and having decided exactly what personality traits in us
injured and disturbed
others, we can now commence to ransack memory for the people to whom
we have given offense.
20.
... exactly what
this book is about.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
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