From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... high.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
2.
... high.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
3.
... high and
legitimate ambition to win the ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
As to our grandiose behavior, we insisted
that we had been possessed of nothing but a high and legitimate ambition to
win the battle of life.
4.
High and
low, rich and poor, these ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
5.
... high character.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
6.
... high confidence
in him, and his temperament ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
If you have developed a high confidence in him, and
his temperament and problems are close to your
own, then such a choice will be good.
7.
... high confidence
in our 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.
8.
... High Finance.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
9.
... high hope.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
10.
... high hurdles,
the course ahead began to ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
11.
... high in
public favor and hadn't an ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
His connection with A.A.
would be valuable, because the Fellowship
stood high in public favor and hadn't an enemy in the world.
12.
... high in
the New England town to ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
War fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic.
13.
... high mission
-- to carry the A.A. message ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
Under these compulsions of self-preservation, duty, and
love, it is not strange
that our Society has concluded that it has but one
high mission -- to carry the A.A. message to those who don't know there's a way out.
14.
... high opinion
of humility as a desirable ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We may still have no very high opinion of humility as a
desirable personal virtue, but we do recognize it as a necessary aid to our survival.
15.
... high-powered sedative
and liquor to quiet his ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work.
16.
... high rating.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
17.
... high resolve?
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Where had been my high resolve?
18.
... high road
to a new freedom.
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as
yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the
high road to a new freedom.
19.
... high school
came four years in one ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After high school came four years in one of the best colleges in the country
where drinking seemed to
be a major extra-curricular activity.
20.
... high school
I was more or less ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
From childhood through
high school I was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service, Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes
to Wednesday evening
prayer meeting.
21.
... high spiritual
development almost always insist on ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or
spiritual advisers
the guidance they feel
they have received from God.
22.
... high-stepping friends
as one of those insanely ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
In a weak moment he may take your dislike of his high-stepping friends as one of those insanely trivial excuses to drink.
23.
... high time
we now -- sober -- paid our ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
24.
... high upon
the basis suggested.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
A spiritual experience, he conceded, was absolutely necessary,
but the price seemed high upon the basis suggested.
25.
... high, we
have some members who never ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Though the earning power of most A.A.'s is relatively high, we have
some members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses.
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