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Hence it
was most evident that a ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Hence it was most evident
that a solitary self-appraisal, and the admission of our defects
based upon that alone, wouldn't be nearly enough.
2.
Hence our
common welfare comes first.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition One (Long)
3.
Hence our
common welfare comes first.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
4.
Hence such
facilities ought not to use ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
5.
Hence such
facilities ought not to use ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
6.
... hence the
A.A. name ought never be ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
"Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy."
7.
... hence the
A.A. name ought never be ...
12&12 p.179,
Tradition Ten
Thus was laid the cornerstone for Tradition Ten: "Alcoholics Anonymous
has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy."
8.
... hence the
A.A. name ought never be ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Ten -- Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
9.
Hence the
two men set to work ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Hence the two men set to work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in
the ward of the Akron City Hospital.
10.
... hence these
people, too, were professionals.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
In all these instances, and more, it was claimed that A.A. knowledge and experience were being sold for money, hence these people, too, were professionals.
11.
Hence we
are at pains to tell ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not
to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, "We don't know."
12.
Hence we
may refuse none who wish ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
13.
Hence we
may refuse none who wish ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
14.
Hence, we
saw that reason isn't everything.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
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