From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... experiment.
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
2.
... experiment.
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
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
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
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
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
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