From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... extremes.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
They run to extremes.
2.
... extremes --
absurd extremes, perhaps.
BB p.68,
How It Works
3.
... extremes are
apt to congratulate ourselves.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
4.
... extremes, perhaps.
BB p.68,
How It Works
5.
... extremes to
provide each other with these ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.
6.
... extremes took
a long time.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
7.
... extremes, types
with which A.A. and the ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Of course the depressive and the power-driver are personality extremes, types with which A.A. and the whole world abound.
8.
... extremes you
fellows did, nor are we ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves
so well after what you have
told us that such things cannot happen again.
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