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... experiment.   BB p.177, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 177 in the Big Book
For the benefit of those experimentally inclined, I should mention the so-called beer experiment.


2.
... experiment.   BB p.178, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 178 in the Big Book
Of course, the result was very bad, and that ended the beer experiment.

3.
... experiment, and when unexpected results followed, we ...   12&12 p.97, Step Eleven
Of course we finally did experiment, and when unexpected results followed, we felt different; in fact we knew different; and so we were sold on meditation and prayer.


4.
... experiment I was thrown in with a ...   BB p.178, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 178 in the Big Book
About the time of the beer experiment I was thrown in with a crowd of people who attracted me because of their seeming poise, health, and happiness.

5.
... experiment lest it prove his pet theory ...   12&12 p.97, Step Eleven
But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong.


6.
... experiment of quitting for a period of ...   BB p.34, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 34 in the Big Book
The experiment of quitting for a period of time will be helpful, but we think we can render an even greater service to alcoholic sufferers and perhaps to the medical fraternity.


7.
... experiment of the first drink?   BB p.35, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 35 in the Big Book
What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink?


8.
... experiment went so well that I ordered ...   BB p.36, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 36 in the Big Book
The experiment went so well that I ordered another whiskey and poured it into more milk.


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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