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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FAIR occurs
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1.
... fair.'
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
It isn't fair.'
2.
... fair and
square.
BB p.148,
To Employers
He will be able to take a
position with such a
man which is
eminently fair and
square.
3.
... fair break.
BB p.73,
Into Action
We
know but few
instances
where we have
given these
doctors a
fair break.
4.
... fair cross
section of our membership and ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
5.
... fair fraction
of the alcohol problem in ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
In all
probability, we shall
never be able to
touch more
than a
fair fraction of
the
alcohol problem in
all
its ramifications.
6.
... fair hearing.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
7.
... fair-minded and
tolerant evaporates on the spot.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
8.
... fair play
and decency would be enough.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
9.
... fair start
on the new basis, but ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Perhaps your
husband will make a
fair start on the new
basis, but just as things are
going beautifully he
dismays you by
coming home drunk.
10.
... fair to
me or the firm.
BB p.147,
To Employers
It isn't
fair to me or the
firm.
11.
... fair weather.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
Let
families realize,
as they
start their
journey, that all will not be
fair weather.
12.
... fair-weather friends.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
I made a
host of
fair-
weather friends.
13.
... fair weather
or foul.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
But when we
approach Step
Ten we
commence to
put our
A.A. way of
living to
practical use,
day by
day, in
fair weather or
foul.
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