From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... laws and
forces at work.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
My intellectual heroes, the chemists, the
astronomers, even the
evolutionists, suggested vast laws and forces at work.
2.
... laws, and
these laws hold true throughout ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
These tiny bodies are governed by precise laws, and these laws hold true throughout the material
world.
3.
... laws", each
one is likely to have ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
The alcoholic, his wife,
his children, his "in-laws", each one is likely to have fixed ideas about the family's attitude towards himself or herself.
4.
... laws hold
true throughout the material world.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
These tiny bodies are governed by precise laws, and these laws hold true throughout the material
world.
5.
... laws of
the land, and having it ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We seriously thought
of rewriting the laws of
the land, and having it declared that alcoholics are sick people.
6.
... laws, they
had become so widely accepted ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
Though none of these principles had the force
of rules or laws, they had become so widely accepted by 1950 that they
were confirmed by our first International Conference held at Cleveland.
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