From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... institution.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
2.
... institution.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
3.
... institution.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
Arrangements were also
made with the chief psychiatrist of a large
public hospital to select still others from the stream of misery which flows through that institution.
4.
... institution.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
5.
... institution after
another.
BB p.110,
To Wives
6.
... institution, but
can convince you and your ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
If he is already committed to an institution,
but can convince you and your doctor that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or dangerous.
7.
... institution; does
not wish to engage in ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes.
8.
... institution is
a better bet.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
9.
... institution of
marriage; who think that most ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
Then we have the voices who cry for sex and more sex; who bewail the institution of marriage; who think that
most of the troubles of the race are traceable to sex causes.
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