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... knows.
BB
Working With Others, p.93
2.
... knows!
12&12
Step Two, p.25
How he does cherish the thought that man, risen so majestically from
a single cell in the primordial ooze, is the spearhead of evolution
and therefore the only god
that his universe knows!
3.
... knows about
the others' alcoholic troubles.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
4.
... knows all
about us, we are apt ...
12&12
Step Five, pp.59-60
Though we may at first be startled to realize that God knows all about us, we are apt to get used to that quite quickly.
5.
... knows he
is to blame; it may ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
Father knows he is to blame; it may take him many seasons of hard work to be restored financially,
but he shouldn't be reproached.
6.
... knows he
must be honest if he ...
BB
To Employers, p.146
7.
... knows he
owes you more than sobriety.
BB
To Wives, p.118
8.
... knows how,
but meanwhile the alcoholic alternately ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.118
The wife usually goes on doing the best she knows how, but meanwhile the alcoholic
alternately loves and hates her maternal care.
9.
... knows I
no longer drink.
BB
To Employers, p.138
Here, for instance, is a typical example: An officer of one of the largest banking institutions in America
knows I no longer drink.
10.
... knows in
a general way that we ...
BB
Into Action, p.81
11.
... knows in
his heart he doesn't deserve ...
BB
Into Action, p.73
12.
... knows more
about it than you do, ...
BB
Working With Others, p.93
Admit that he probably
knows more about it than you do,
but call to his attention
the fact that however deep his
faith and knowledge, he
could not have applied it or he would not drink.
13.
... knows no
alcohol, he may overdo.
BB
To Employers, p.146
Being somewhat weakened, and faced with physical and mental readjustment to a life
which knows no alcohol, he may overdo.
14.
... knows, so
that we may experience and ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
15.
... knows so
well.
BB
Working With Others, p.93
Perhaps your story will help him see where he has failed to practice the very precepts he knows so well.
16.
... knows that
active alcoholics scream that they ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
17.
... knows that
God has enabled him to ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow
knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he senses that he stands at the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed.
18.
... knows that
they are real.
BB
Bill's Story, p.14
He knows that they are real.
19.
... knows that
those in bad health, and ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
20.
... knows that
thousands of men, much like ...
BB
To Wives, p.113
21.
... knows the
alcoholic as the employer sees ...
BB
To Employers, p.136
22.
... knows the
reason.
BB
We Agnostics, p.51
23.
... knows, we
have tried hard enough and ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
24.
... knows what
he is talking about, that ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
That the man who is making the
approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole
deportment shouts at the
new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no
axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured --
these are the conditions we have found most effective.
25.
... knows what
trouble he'll brew.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.142
26.
... knows you
understand and will not be ...
BB
To Employers, p.144
If he feels free to discuss his problems with
you, if he knows you understand and will not be upset by anything he wishes to say, he will probably be off to a fast start.
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