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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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1.
... folk?   12&12 p.90, Step Ten
Can't we be properly angry with self-righteous folk?


2.
... folk and their doings; his insistence that ...   BB p.10, Bill's Story   Go to page 10 in the Big Book
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke of these things just before he died; these recollections welled up from the past.

3.
... folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with ...   12&12 p.96, Step Eleven
We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along.


4.
... folk have suggested certain attitudes a wife ...   BB p.122, The Family Afterward   Go to page 122 in the Big Book
Our women folk have suggested certain attitudes a wife may take with the husband who is recovering.

5.
... folk then read Tradition Two, and learn ...   12&12 p.132, Tradition Two
These practical folk then read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience.

6.
... folk, we could not well carry on ...   12&12 p.184, Tradition Twelve
Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in such an event."


7.
... folk, we could not well carry on ...   BB xiii, Foreword to First Edition   Display entire Foreword to First Edition
Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in such an event.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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