From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
IGNORANCE occurs
5 times
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1.
... ignorance and
misunderstanding.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Back of them is a
world of
ignorance and
misunderstanding.
2.
... ignorance, compulsion,
and self-will, do we misuse ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
So our
question will be this: How, by
ignorance,
compulsion, and
self-will, do we
misuse this
gift for our
own destruction?
3.
... ignorance of
alcoholism.
BB p.107,
To Wives
Some of them
rose out of
ignorance of
alcoholism.
4.
... ignorance of
markets.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
I had
developed a
theory that most people
lost money in
stocks through
ignorance of
markets.
5.
... ignorance --
that principle is contempt prior to ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
"There is a
principle which is a
bar against all
information, which is
proof against all
arguments
and which cannot
fail to
keep
a
man in
everlasting
ignorance -- that
principle is
contempt prior to
investigation." --
Herbert Spencer
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