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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FAILS occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... fails somewhat
in practicing them.
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.
2.
... fails to
show unselfishness and love under ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
He is not
likely to get far in any
direction if he
fails to
show unselfishness and
love under his
own roof.
3.
... fails to
whip up a hurricane, and ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Even the
suggestion of such a thing
never fails to
whip up a
hurricane, and we
have
discovered that
hurricanes have a way of
mauling with
equal severity both the just and the
unjust.
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