From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... insisted.
BB p.79,
Into Action
2.
... insisted, like
infants ourselves, that people protect ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
When we had taken the opposite tack and had insisted, like infants ourselves, that
people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result had
been equally unfortunate.
3.
... insisted on
being overdependent upon them.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
Either we had tried to play God and dominate those about us, or
we had insisted on being overdependent upon them.
4.
... insisted on
speaking with me.
BB p.136,
To Employers
5.
... insisted that
few drunks could ever get ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
I insisted that few drunks could ever get well on their own steam, but that in our groups we could do together
what we could not do separately.
6.
... insisted that
we had been possessed of ...
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.
7.
... insisted the
Wrights would never fly.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
When others showed us that
"God-sufficiency" worked with them, we began to
feel like those who had insisted the Wrights would never fly.
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