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... just a
conceited Irishman who thinks he ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
2.
... just a
little superior to the next ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior?
3.
... just a
question of taking care of ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
4.
... just about
doubled, to an estimated two ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
Since the third edition
was published in 1976, worldwide membership
of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated
two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.
5.
... just about
the extent that we stop ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
We discover that we do receive guidance for our
lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on
our terms.
6.
... just about
the largest fact in his ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
To him, this proposition will be no theory at all; it will be just about the largest fact in his life.
7.
... just about
the last straw.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
8.
... just accumulating
funds for the next spree.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
9.
... just ahead.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
The immense resources
now being harnessed promise such a quantity of material blessings that
many have come to believe that a man-made millennium lies just ahead.
10.
... just and
the unjust.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Even the suggestion of
such a thing never fails to whip up a hurricane, and we have discovered that hurricanes have a way of mauling with equal severity both the just and the unjust.
11.
... just another
very sick, unreasonable person.
BB p.108,
To Wives
12.
... just as
biased and unreasonable about the ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
We asked ourselves this:
Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable
about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients
about the realm of the material?
13.
... just as
capable of endurance and valor ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
14.
... just as
disturbing to our equilibrium, because ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
And we cling with a passionate persistence to others
which are just as disturbing to our equilibrium, because we
still enjoy them too much.
15.
... just as
far gone.
BB p.110,
To Wives
16.
Just as
firmly bound by obligation are ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Just as firmly bound by obligation are
the members of Alcoholics Anonymous,
who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can.
17.
... just as
he thought he was getting ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
Some time later, and just as he thought he was getting control of his liquor situation, he went on a roaring bender.
18.
... just as
hopeless as Bill.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill.
19.
... just as
it was originally written in ...
BB xi,
Preface
The section called "The
Doctor's Opinion" has
been kept intact, just as it was originally written in 1939 by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, our
Society's great medical benefactor.
20.
... just as
much as the feeling we ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend.
21.
... just as
much to uncounted alcoholics not ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
22.
... just as
often some of us will ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
23.
... just as
sharply defined as the examples ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
24.
... just as
soon as we become reasonably ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our sobriety.
25.
... just as
surely convinced that the group ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
The bleeding deacon is
one who is just as surely convinced that the
group cannot get along without him, who constantly connives for
reelection to office,
and who continues to be consumed with self-pity.
26.
Just as
the aim of each A.A. ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
Just as the aim of each A.A. member is personal sobriety, the aim of our services is to bring sobriety within reach of all who want it.
27.
... just as
the program has brought recovery ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
The basic principles of
the A.A. program, it appears, hold good for individuals with
many different lifestyles, just as the program has brought recovery to those of many different nationalities.
28.
... just as
things are going beautifully he ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
29.
... just as
we did when we admitted ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we
did when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
30.
... just as
we were being convinced of ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
And just as we were being convinced of their heartlessness, they would surprise us with fresh resolves and new attentions.
31.
... just as
well now, and it would ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
32.
Just be
careful not to disagree in ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
33.
... just beaten
up a couple of nurses.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
34.
... just because
he is alcoholic.
BB p.148,
To Employers
35.
... just because
we were maladjusted to life, ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control
our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that
we were in full flight from
reality, or were outright mental defectives.
36.
... just because
your friends drink liquor.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
37.
... just before
going to sleep, many of ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
When evening comes, perhaps just before going to sleep, many of us draw up a balance sheet for the day.
38.
... just before
he died; these recollections welled ...
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.
39.
... just beginning
his development.
BB p.118,
To Wives
40.
... just comes!
BB p.85,
Into Action
It just comes!
41.
... just didn't
show up.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
42.
... just don't
believe they have it.
BB p.149,
To Employers
43.
... just for
sobriety, they still haven't much ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they
develop much more of this precious quality than may be required just for sobriety, they still haven't
much chance of becoming truly happy.
44.
... just getting
over a spree, a certain ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
For most alcoholics who are drinking, or who are just getting over a spree, a certain amount of physical treatment is desirable,
even imperative.
45.
... just how
and by what specific means ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Therefore our problem
now becomes just how and by what specific means shall we be able to let Him in?
46.
Just how
did I react to these ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
47.
... "Just how
do I go about this?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
48.
... just how,
in these circumstances, does a ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
49.
... just how
their lives should be lived ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
What happens when we try to
dominate the whole family, either by a rule of iron or by a constant outpouring of
minute directions for
just how their lives should
be lived from hour to hour?
50.
... just how
this campaign should be handled.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
51.
... just how
we shall act.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves
just what we shall think and just how we shall act.
52.
... just isn't
so.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
This just isn't so.
53.
... just like
all other societies, we do ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
But just like all other societies, we do have
sex and marital problems, and sometimes
they are distressingly acute.
54.
... just like
him, and have found the ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
55.
... just like
that.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
With us it is just like that.
56.
... just like
this are heard daily.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
57.
... just like
yours.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
58.
... just made
conscious contact with God, it ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that
we are going to be inspired at all times.
59.
... just making
it possible.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
60.
... just now
taking shape in Asia.
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
61.
... just now
tapped a source of power ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
62.
... just now
we've got him strapped down ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
Understand he was once a
well-known lawyer in town, but just now we've got him strapped down tight.(*)
63.
... just one
chap on the third floor ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
64.
... just outlined.
BB p.88,
Into Action
65.
... just part
and parcel of learning to ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
66.
... just past.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
67.
... just procrastinate,
telling ourselves the time is ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may just procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not yet, when in reality we have already passed up many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.
68.
Just resign
from the debating society and ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Just resign from the debating society and quit bothering yourself with such deep questions as whether it was the hen or the
egg that came first.
69.
... just returned
from a three-months leave of ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
He has just returned from
a three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."
70.
Just saying
it over and over will ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
71.
... just so
earnestly did we commence to ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
As we had once struggled
and prayed for individual recovery,
just so earnestly did we
commence to quest for the
principles through
which A.A. itself might survive.
72.
... just so
long as we were convinced ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own
individual strength
and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
73.
... just strained
relations.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
74.
... just that.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
75.
... just that
did happen and more, for ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
Well, just that did happen and more, for what I had
learned of alcoholism
did not occur to me at all.
76.
... just that
for many of us.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us.
77.
... just that
long was a working faith ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own
individual strength
and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
78.
... just, that
we ought to be ambitious ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
We were still sure that we ought to be fairly honest, tolerant, and just, that we ought to be ambitious and hardworking.
79.
... just the
jolt he needs.
BB p.141,
To Employers
80.
... just the
opposite.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
If, however, our natural disposition is inclined to self-righteousness or grandiosity, our reaction will be just the opposite.
81.
Just then
an old acquaintance stuck a ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
82.
... just then;
the groups weren't sending in ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The Foundation was really hard up just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of the office; we
had been tossing in all the book income and even that hadn't been enough.
83.
... just this,
and nothing less: That we ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and
effective spiritual
experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.
84.
... just this
way.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
85.
... just thought
I would get a sandwich.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
86.
... just to
nail things down good, were ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
They understood that the elders, just to nail things down good, were about to apply to the Foundation
for a charter.
87.
Just to
the extent that we do ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
Just to the extent that we
do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.
88.
... just trying
to be a number one ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle for money, romance, or self-importance.
89.
... just underneath
there is deadly earnestness.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
90.
... just voted
a company expenditure of a ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an
A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.
91.
... just want
to be sure that you ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
92.
... just wanted
to tell you Paul jumped ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
I still expected a plea for clemency, but these
words came through the receiver: "I
just wanted to tell you Paul jumped from a hotel window in Hartford last Saturday.
93.
... just what
A.A. was all about.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Consequently, many groups began to hold meetings which were open to interested friends and the public, so
that the average citizen
could see for himself just what A.A. was all about.
94.
... just what
do we do?
BB p.60,
How It Works
95.
Just what
do we mean by that, ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
96.
... just what
instances did my selfish pursuit ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
When, and how, and in just what instances did my selfish
pursuit of the sex relation damage other people and me?
97.
... just what
our deeper objectives are.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
As we approach the actual taking of Step Seven, it might be well if we A.A.'s inquire once more just what our deeper objectives are.
98.
... just what
we shall think and just ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves
just what we shall think and just how we shall act.
99.
... just where
he had left off at ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
100.
... just where
it is needed.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
101.
... just where
the remaining Steps of the ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
102.
Just would
he like to?
BB p.112,
To Wives
Just would he like to?
103.
... just wouldn't
work on alcohol.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
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