From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FAILURES occurs
4 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... failures.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to
drink because at
work we were
great successes or
dismal failures.
2.
... failures, but
in those cases they made ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
They
experienced a few
distressing failures, but
in those
cases they made an
effort to bring the
man's
family into a
spiritual
way of
living, thus
relieving much
worry and
suffering.
3.
... failures, but
there was an occasional heartening ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
There were many
failures, but there was an
occasional heartening
success.
4.
... failures to
find others, a fourth turned ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
After several
failures to find others, a
fourth turned up.
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