From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... fail.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
With this attitude you cannot fail.
2.
... fail.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
3.
... fail.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
4.
... fail any
of these people, we can ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Whenever we fail any of these people, we can promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to
them also, when the admission would be helpful.
5.
... fail its
purpose for lack of nourishment, ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
6.
... fail, our
suffering becomes acute and constant.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
As we redouble our efforts at control, and continue to fail, our suffering becomes acute and constant.
7.
... fail to
approve these simple principles, though ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing
them.
8.
... fail to
get a worked-for promotion.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
9.
... fail to
get something we demanded.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The chief activator of
our defects has been self-centered fear -- primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to
get something we demanded.
10.
... fail to
keep a man in everlasting ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -- Herbert Spencer
11.
... fail to
make satisfactory progress.
BB p.78,
Into Action
12.
... fail to
make us feel elated.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
For no people have ever loved personal triumphs more than we have loved them; we
drank of success as of a
wine which could never fail to make us feel elated.
13.
... fail to
recognize is our total inability ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
The primary fact that we
fail to recognize is our
total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.
14.
... fail us,
for they are human, too, ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
If we lean too heavily on
people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human, too,
and cannot possibly meet
our incessant demands.
15.
... fail who
has thoroughly followed our path.
BB p.58,
How It Works
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