From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... known!
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known!
2.
... known.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
3.
... known.
BB p.78,
Into Action
We have already admitted this in confidence to another person, but we are sure we
would be imprisoned or lose our job if it were known.
4.
... known.
BB p.137,
To Employers
I had been obliged to discharge him for drinking, though he was brilliant, alert, and one of the best organizers I have ever
known.
5.
... known a
spiritual experience.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
One night, when confined in a hospital,
he was approached by an alcoholic who had known a spiritual experience.
6.
... known accounting
firm.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
7.
... known American
psychiatrists.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
8.
... known are
wrong?"
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
But later, alone in his room, he asked himself this question: "Is
it possible that all the religious people I have
known are wrong?"
9.
... known as
"two-stepping."
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
10.
... known doctor,
chief physician at a nationally ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
A well-known doctor, chief physician at a nationally prominent
hospital specializing in alcoholic and drug addiction, gave Alcoholics Anonymous
this letter:
11.
... known from
the very beginning that we ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
As by some deep instinct,
we A.A.'s have known from the very beginning that we must never, no matter what the provocation, publicly
take sides in any fight, even a worthy one.
12.
... known him
before.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
I talked with him for some time, but was not able to bring myself to feel that I had known him before.
13.
... known hospital
for the mental and physical ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
My brother-in-law is a physician, and through
his kindness and that of my mother I was placed in a nationally-known hospital for the mental and
physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.
14.
... known hospital
for the treatment of alcoholic ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
15.
... known in
A.A. slang as "elder statesmen" ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
Ultimately, they divide into two classes known in A.A. slang as "elder statesmen" and "bleeding deacons."
16.
... known lawyer
in town, but just now ...
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.(*)
17.
... known means
to get the jay-walking idea ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
18.
... known only
excitement, depression, or anxiety -- in ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
To those of us who have hitherto known only excitement, depression, or anxiety
-- in other words, to all of
us -- this newfound peace
is a priceless gift.
19.
... known remedy.
BB p.137,
To Employers
20.
... known stages
of a spree, emerging remorseful, ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again.
21.
... known surgeon
and a New York broker.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker.
22.
... known that
no one can make much ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
For the wise have always
known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
23.
... known these
strangers always.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
24.
... known to
man, but who had been ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
But this was a man who had experienced many years of frightful drinking, who had had most all the drunkard's experiences
known to man, but who had been
cured by the very means I had been trying to employ, that is to say the spiritual approach.
25.
... known to
man, religion and that instinct ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist:
"This organization of Alcoholics Anonymous
calls on two of the greatest reservoirs of
power known to man, religion and that instinct for association with one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'
26.
... known to
raise the very devil.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Members of a family
should watch such matters carefully, for one careless, inconsiderate remark
has been known to raise the
very devil.
27.
... known to
the authorities.
BB p.78,
Into Action
Perhaps we have committed a criminal offense which might land us in
jail if it were known to the
authorities.
28.
... known today,
were borrowed mainly from the ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
The basic principles of
A.A., as they are known today, were borrowed mainly from the fields of religion and medicine, though some ideas upon which success finally depended were the
result of noting the behavior and needs of the Fellowship itself.
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and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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