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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INSISTED occurs
7 times
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1.
... insisted.
BB p.79,
Into Action
He said he was
perfectly willing to go to
jail if she
insisted.
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
One
day my
secretary came in saying that
Mr. B___
insisted on
speaking with me.
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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