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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... hard.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
They made me
swallow hard.
2.
... hard.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
That
statement hit me
hard.
3.
... hard.
BB p.146,
To Employers
They
work hard and they
play hard.
4.
... hard and
failed, we may chalk that ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Even when we have
tried hard
and
failed, we may
chalk
that up as one of the
greatest credits of all.
5.
... hard-and-fast lines
that we have drawn.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Looking again at those
defects we are still
unwilling to
give up, we
ought to
erase the
hard-and-
fast lines that we have
drawn.
6.
... hard and
have a knack of getting ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
When
sober, does he not
work
hard and have a
knack of
getting things done?
7.
... hard and
they play hard.
BB p.146,
To Employers
They
work hard and they
play hard.
8.
... hard at
the elimination of the worst ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
9.
... hard drinker.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Then we have a
certain type
of
hard drinker.
10.
... hard drinker,
a moderate drinker or a ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
Whether you are a
hard drinker, a
moderate drinker or a
teetotaler,
you may have some
pretty strong opinions, perhaps
prejudices.
11.
... hard drinker;
but at some stage of ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He may
start off as a
moderate drinker; he may
or may not
become a
continuous hard drinker; but at some
stage of
his
drinking career he
begins to
lose all
control of his
liquor consumption, once he
starts to
drink.
12.
... hard drinkers
ought to slow down, and ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
They
wanted to say that
liquor should be
enjoyed,
not
misused;
hard drinkers ought to
slow down,
and
problem drinkers --
alcoholics -- should not
drink at all.
13.
... hard drinking
have been repaired in four.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
As we shall see, he now
means a
great deal to his
community, and the
major liabilities of
thirty years of
hard drinking have been
repaired in
four.
14.
... hard, either.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
You won't have to
work at it very
hard, either.
15.
... hard enough
and long enough to drink ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Heaven knows, we have
tried hard enough and
long enough to
drink like other
people!
16.
... hard, even
impossible.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
17.
... hard feeling
and controversy.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
The
proceeding was
shot
through with much
hard feeling and
controversy.
18.
... hard feeling
toward him.
BB p.142,
To Employers
19.
... hard is
a heartbreaking riddle.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
20.
... hard knocks
to learn this truth: Job ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Some of us have
taken very
hard knocks to
learn this
truth:
Job or no
job --
wife or no
wife -- we
simply do not
stop drinking so
long as we place
dependence upon other people
ahead of
dependence on
God.
21.
... hard lesson
that overdependence upon people is ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had
refused to
learn
the very
hard lesson that
overdependence upon people is
unsuccessful because all people are
fallible, and even the
best
of them will sometimes let us down,
especially
when our
demands for
attention become unreasonable.
22.
... hard on
ourself, but always considerate of ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
The
rule is we
must be
hard on ourself, but always
considerate of others.
23.
... hard on
the hopelessness of the drunk's ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
I
bore down
hard on the
hopelessness of the
drunk's
dilemma.
24.
... hard or
times were good.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to
drink because
times were
hard or
times were
good.
25.
... hard question,
but practically speaking, it isn't.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
This
sounds like a
hard question, but
practically speaking,
it isn't.
26.
... hard stuff."
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
"
Lay off the
hard stuff."
27.
... hard terms
with those who seek Him.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
We
found that
God does not
make too
hard terms with
those who
seek Him.
28.
... hard thought.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
29.
... hard times
which will befall you and ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
You may be
afraid your
husband will
lose his
position; you are
thinking of the
disgrace
and
hard times which will
befall you and the
children.
30.
... hard to
bear.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
Our
disillusionment had been
hard to
bear.
31.
... hard to
do.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
To
put a
finger on the
nearby and most
deeply damaged ones shouldn't be
hard to do.
32.
... hard to
find twoscore of sure recoveries ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
Even then it was
hard to find
twoscore of
sure recoveries in all
three groups.
33.
... hard to
live with.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
Almost always we
want to go
further and
admit other
defects that have made us
hard
to
live with.
34.
... hard to
match.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
Ever since, these
friends have
reported A.A. with an
enthusiasm which the most
ardent members would find
hard to
match.
35.
... hard to
re-establish friendly relations with his ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
36.
... hard to
see and understand.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
In most
cases our
motives
won't be
hard to see and
understand.
37.
... hard to
seek them out.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
Yes --
whenever they
try
hard to
seek them out.
38.
... hard to
swallow.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
Though I had been only a
nominal churchman, their
proposals were not,
intellectually,
hard to
swallow.
39.
... hard to
take.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Here again we are
presented with the
temptation to
overmanage things, and sometimes this
results in
rebuffs and
other
consequences which are
hard to take.
40.
... hard to
understand.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
And these things which they have in
common are not
too
hard to
understand.
41.
... hard up.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
'
Bill,' he said, 'I
think
it's a
shame that you are
financially so
hard up.
42.
... hard up
just then; the groups weren't ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The
Foundation was really
hard up just then; the
groups
weren't
sending in
enough
for the
support of the
office; we had been
tossing
in all the book
income and even that hadn't been
enough.
43.
... hard up
you are, Bill.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
'We
know how
hard up you are,
Bill.
44.
... hard way.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
We
alcoholics have
learned this the
hard way.
45.
... hard way.
BB p.121,
To Wives
We had to
learn these things the
hard way.
46.
... hard with
many alcoholics on the theory ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Prior to his
journey to
Akron, the
broker had
worked hard with many
alcoholics on the
theory
that only an
alcoholic could
help an
alcoholic, but he
had
succeeded only in
keeping sober himself.
47.
... hard with
no better motive than to ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
And how often we
work hard
with no
better motive than
to be
secure and
slothful later on -- only we
call that "
retiring."
48.
... hard work
of a simple matter.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I had no
trouble refusing drinks, and
began to
wonder if I had not
been
making too
hard work of a
simple matter.
49.
... hard work
to be restored financially, but ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Father knows he is to
blame; it may take him many
seasons of
hard work to be
restored financially, but he shouldn't be
reproached.
50.
... hard you
try.
BB p.111,
To Wives
You may be
unable to do so, no
matter how
hard you
try.
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