From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... importance.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
2.
... importance.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle for money, romance, or self-importance.
3.
... importance.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
4.
... importance and
material success.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We must be quite as careful when we begin to achieve some measure of
importance and material success.
5.
... importance; because
of the extraordinary possibilities of ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
These facts appear to be of
extreme medical importance; because of the extraordinary possibilities of rapid
growth inherent in this
group they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism.
6.
... importance for
most alcoholics are the questions ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Also of importance for most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial
and emotional security.
7.
... importance, power,
ambition, and leadership.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
Let's here take note of our improved outlook upon the problems of personal importance, power, ambition, and leadership.
8.
... importance than
the weight we could collectively ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous
to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.
9.
... importance to
alcoholics, but its application presented ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but its application presented
difficulties beyond
our conception.
10.
... importance to
those afflicted with alcoholic addiction.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
The subject presented
in this book seems to me to
be of paramount importance to those afflicted with alcoholic addiction.
11.
... importance was
no longer our principal aim; ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
12.
... importance was
the fact that he was ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Of far more importance was the fact that he was
the first living human with whom I had ever talked, who knew what he was talking about in regard to
alcoholism from actual
experience.
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