From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... future.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
2.
... future.
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
It is A.A.'s proved willingness to make these
sacrifices that gives
people their high confidence in our future.
3.
... future.
BB p.66,
How It Works
4.
... future.
BB p.79,
Into Action
5.
... future.
BB p.119,
To Wives
After all, your family is
reunited, alcohol is no longer a problem and you and your husband are working together toward an undreamed-of future.
6.
... future ahead.
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Many of our friends encourage us by saying
that this is but a beginning, only the augury of a much larger future ahead.
7.
... future Fellow
Anonymous: "Damn little to laugh ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
8.
... future fellow
of Alcoholics Anonymous stared glassily ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
Two days later, a future fellow of Alcoholics Anonymous stared glassily at the strangers beside his bed.
9.
... future fellows
of Alcoholics Anonymous.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
10.
... future functioning
and safety.
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
11.
... future gifts
would be similarly declined.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
Difficult as it was, they officially declined
that ten thousand dollars, and adopted a formal, airtight resolution that all such
future gifts would be similarly declined.
12.
... future happiness
can be based only upon ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
The family may be possessed by the idea that
future happiness can be
based only upon forgetfulness of the past.
13.
... future he
would have the "will power" ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
Following his physical rehabilitation, he had a talk with me in which he frankly stated he thought the treatment a
waste of effort, unless I could assure him,
which no one ever had, that in the future he
would have the "will power"
to resist the impulse to
drink.
14.
... future opportunity
to carry a beneficial message.
BB p.77,
Into Action
15.
... future sex
life.
BB p.69,
How It Works
16.
... future will
be to describe the growth ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Perhaps the best way of treating you to a glimpse of your future will be to describe the growth of the fellowship
among us.
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