From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INSISTENCE occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... insistence that
every A.A. must hit bottom ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Why all this
insistence that every
A.A. must hit
bottom first?
2.
... insistence that
the spheres really had their ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost
hear the
sound
of the
preacher's
voice
as I
sat, on still
Sundays,
way over there on the
hillside; there was that
proffered temperance
pledge I
never signed; my
grandfather's
good natured contempt of some
church folk and their doings; his
insistence that the
spheres
really had their
music; but his
denial of the
preacher's
right to tell him how he
must listen; his
fearlessness as he
spoke
of these things just before he
died; these
recollections welled
up from the
past.
3.
... insistence upon
anonymity.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
They were
genuinely baffled by our
insistence upon
anonymity.
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