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... known!
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
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
Bill's Story, p.14
3.
... known.
BB
Into Action, p.78
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
To Employers, p.137
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
We Agnostics, p.56
One night, when confined in a hospital, he
was approached by an alcoholic who had known a spiritual experience.
6.
... known accounting
firm.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
7.
... known American
psychiatrists.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
8.
... known are
wrong?"
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
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
Step Twelve, p.113
10.
... known doctor,
chief physician at a nationally ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
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
Tradition Ten, p.176
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
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
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
Bill's Story, p.7
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
A Vision For You, pp.161-162
15.
... known in
A.A. slang as "elder statesmen" ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.135
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
A Vision For You, p.156
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
More About Alcoholism, p.38
18.
... known only
excitement, depression, or anxiety -- in ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
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
To Employers, p.137
20.
... known stages
of a spree, emerging remorseful, ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
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
Foreword, p.16
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
Step Ten, p.88
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
A Vision For You, p.161
24.
... known to
man, but who had been ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
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
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
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
The Family Afterward, p.125
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
Into Action, p.78
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
Foreword, p.16
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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