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1.
... individual.
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
2.
... individual.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
To all
appearance he is a
stable, well
balanced individual.
3.
... individual adventure,
something which each one of ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
Aided by such
instruction and
example
as we can find, it is
essentially an
individual adventure, something
which each one of us
works out in his
own way.
4.
... individual alcoholic
could live, so we had ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
As we
discovered the
principles by which the
individual alcoholic could
live, so we had to
evolve principles by which the
A.A.
groups and
A.A. as a
whole could
survive and
function effectively.
5.
... individual alone.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
They have
become persuaded, and
rightly
so, that many
problems besides
alcohol will not
yield to a
headlong assault powered by the
individual
alone.
6.
... individual as
alcoholic, but you can quickly ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
We do not like to
pronounce any
individual as
alcoholic, but
you can
quickly diagnose yourself.
7.
... individual basis.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
And
everywhere the same thing is being done on
an
individual basis.
8.
... individual can
do.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
But now it
appears that there are
certain things which only the
individual can do.
9.
... individual case,
will help turn up the ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will
come to
mind easily in each
individual case, will
help turn up the
root causes.
10.
... individual character
defects are.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Human beings are
never quite
alike, so each of
us, when
making an
inventory, will
need to
determine what his
individual character defects are.
11.
... individual's desire
for prestige becomes uncontrollable, whether ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
12.
... individual doesn't
count for much?
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
"Does this
mean," some will
anxiously ask, "that in
A.A. the
individual doesn't
count for much?
13.
... individual entity,
strictly reliant on its own ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
14.
... individual, in
the personal stories, describes in ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Each
individual, in the
personal stories,
describes in his
own language and from his
own point of
view the way he
established his
relationship with
God.
15.
... individual may
be entirely outside of A.A. ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
This
individual may be
entirely outside of
A.A. -- for
example, your
clergyman or your
doctor.
16.
... individual may
prove a blessing to him.
BB p.141,
To Employers
Firing such an
individual
may
prove a
blessing to
him.
17.
... individual members.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
Here was something
rare in the
world -- a
society which said
it
wished to
publicize
its principles and
its work, but not
its individual members.
18.
... individual members;
surely there is none which ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
We
believe there isn't a
fellowship on
earth which
lavishes more
devoted
care upon
its individual members;
surely there is
none which more
jealously guards the
individual's
right to
think,
talk, and
act as he
wishes.
19.
... individual members
waxed prosperous.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
20.
... individual, must
eventually conform to whatever tested ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
21.
... individual of
today is a stickler for ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
The
practical individual
of
today is a
stickler
for
facts and
results.
22.
... individual recovery,
just so earnestly did we ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
As we had once
struggled and
prayed for
individual recovery, just so
earnestly did we
commence to
quest for the
principles through which
A.A.
itself might
survive.
23.
... individual responsibilities
to act as they see ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Nor does it
mean that the
members of
Alcoholics Anonymous, now
restored
as
citizens of the
world,
are
going to back away from their
individual responsibilities to
act as they see the
right upon
issues of our
time.
24.
... individual's right
to think, talk, and act ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
We
believe there isn't a
fellowship on
earth which
lavishes more
devoted
care upon
its individual members;
surely there is
none which more
jealously guards the
individual's
right to
think,
talk, and
act as he
wishes.
25.
... individual should
consult his own conscience.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
Each
individual should
consult his
own conscience.
26.
... individual should
ever take any action that ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
And no
group,
regional committee, or
individual
should ever take any
action that might
greatly affect A.A. as a
whole without
conferring with the
trustees of the
General Service Board.
27.
... individual should
ever take any action that ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
And no
group,
regional committee, or
individual
should ever take any
action that might
greatly affect A.A. as a
whole without
conferring with the
trustees of the
General Service Board.
28.
... individual skills.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
The
unique ability of
each
A.A. to
identify
himself with, and bring
recovery to, the
newcomer in no way
depends
upon his
learning,
eloquence, or on any
special individual skills.
29.
... individual spells
sheer anarchy.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
To many
minds all this
liberty for the
individual spells sheer anarchy.
30.
... individual strength
and intelligence, for just that ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
For just so
long as we were
convinced that we could
live
exclusively by our
own
individual strength and
intelligence, for just that
long was a
working faith in a
Higher Power impossible.
31.
... individual to
settle for himself.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
They are
questions for each
individual to
settle for himself.
32.
... individual was
always making friendly little jokes ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
33.
... individual ways.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
Unlike the
feelings of
the
ship's
passengers,
however, our
joy in
escape
from
disaster does not
subside as we go our
individual ways.
34.
... individual welfare
follows close afterward.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition One (Long)
35.
... individual welfare
follows close afterward.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
36.
... individual, who
still smarts from our injustice ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
It is
seldom wise to
approach an
individual, who
still
smarts from our
injustice to him, and
announce that we have
gone religious.
37.
... individual will
not.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
It
becomes plain that the
group must survive or the
individual will
not.
38.
... individual with
a passion, say, for jay-walking.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
Our
behavior is as
absurd and
incomprehensible with
respect to the
first drink as that of an
individual
with a
passion, say, for
jay-
walking.
39.
... individual with
alcoholic tendencies, he has probably ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
40.
... individual, your
chances are good at this ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
If your
husband is
otherwise a
normal individual, your
chances are
good at this
stage.
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