From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INTOLERANCE occurs
8 times
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1.
... intolerance?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
After all, isn't
fear the
true basis of
intolerance?
2.
... intolerance finally
threw him into a fit ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
His
wife is
one of
those persons who
really feels there is
something rather sinful about these
commodities, so she
nagged, and her
intolerance finally threw him into a
fit of
anger.
3.
... intolerance may
lessen your husband's chance of ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
4.
... intolerance might
repel alcoholics whose lives could ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
A
spirit of
intolerance
might
repel alcoholics
whose lives could have been
saved, had it not been for
such stupidity.
5.
... intolerance of
any kind, the informality, the ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
6.
... intolerance or
belligerent denial.
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
He can only be
defeated by an
attitude of
intolerance or
belligerent denial.
7.
... intolerance or
hatred of drinking as an ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
8.
... intolerance, while
we were intolerant ourselves.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
We
talked of
intolerance,
while we were
intolerant
ourselves.
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