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... function.
12&12
Contents (Step Four), p.6
2.
... function.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.134
3.
... function.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
4.
... function?" and,
"How can A.A. best stay ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay
whole and so survive?"
5.
... function as
human beings, we had taken ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
Instead of regarding the
satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and
function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.
6.
... function at
all? How can they possibly ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.130
"How," they ask, "can such a crowd of anarchists function at all? How can they possibly place their common welfare first? What in Heaven's name holds them together?"
7.
... function, but
at the same time it ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.175
A.A. has to function, but at the
same time it must avoid those dangers of great wealth, prestige, and entrenched
power which necessarily
tempt other societies.
8.
... function can
very often lie in preparing ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist:
"As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship
of my specialty to A.A. and I
have come to the conclusion that our particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside help.
9.
... function effectively.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
As we discovered the principles by which the individual alcoholic
could live, so we had to evolve principles by which
the A.A. groups and A.A. as a whole could survive and function effectively.
10.
... function is
to grow in understanding and ...
BB
Into Action, p.84
11.
... function, it
has to be habitable and ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.167
12.
... function without
full-time service workers.
12&12
Contents (Tradition Eight), p.11
13.
... function without
full-time workers.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.168
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