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Alcoholics Anonymous
(Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
(12 & 12)
justifiable
justification
justified
JUSTIFY
occurs
2 times
(
Definition
from Merriam-Webster Online)
keen
keener
keenly
1.
... justify our
excesses.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
When the
satisfaction
of our
instincts
for
sex
,
security
, and
society
becomes
the
sole
object
of our
lives
, then
pride
steps
in to
justify
our
excesses
.
2.
... justify the
most arrant nonsense on the ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Lacking
both
practice
and
humility
, they had
deluded
themselves and were able to
justify
the most
arrant
nonsense
on the
ground
that this was what
God
had told them.
Passages from the Big Book
Alcoholics Anonymous
and the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc. The
A.A. Preamble
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