From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EXCLAIM occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... exclaim, "They
are making disobedience a virtue!"
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
At this
juncture, we can
hear a
churchman exclaim, "They are
making disobedience a
virtue!"
2.
... exclaim, "This
simply can't be.
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
When told that our
Society has no
president having
authority to
govern it, no
treasurer who can
compel the
payment of any
dues, no
board of
directors who can
cast an
erring member into
outer darkness, when
indeed no
A.A. can
give another a
directive and
enforce obedience, our
friends gasp and
exclaim, "This
simply can't be.
3.
... exclaim, "What
if we had actually succeeded ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
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