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... failure.
BB
How It Works, p.64
2.
... failure.
BB
Working With Others, p.101
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes
to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure.
3.
... failure.
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
4.
Failure and
misery transformed by humility.
12&12
Contents (Step Seven), p.7
5.
... failure and
misery transformed by humility into ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.75
6.
... failure and
success.
BB
Working With Others, p.98
7.
... failure are
converted into assets.
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
8.
... failure at
life; that unless he is ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions:
that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary
cause of his drinking and
his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of
the worst of these defects,
both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty
foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
9.
... failure during
delirium tremens, or I would ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
My weary and despairing
wife was informed that it
would all end with heart failure during delirium tremens, or I would
develop a wet brain, perhaps within a year.
10.
... failure in
getting alcoholics to recover, three ...
12&12
Foreword, p.16
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could be
based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover, three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
11.
... failure, insanity,
fatal illness, suicide -- these calamities ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed
him.
12.
... failure is
always the result.
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
13.
... failure of
the kind of defense that ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
There is a complete failure
of the kind of defense that
keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
14.
... failure of
their human resources, they found ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
In the face of collapse and
despair, in the face of the
total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them.
15.
... failure or
success?
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
16.
... failure wouldn't
jeopardize their personal survival.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.151
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