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LEGITIMATE occurs
4 times
[1 in BB ... 3 in 12&12]
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1.
... legitimate ambition
to win the battle of ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
As to our
grandiose behavior, we
insisted that
we had been
possessed of
nothing but a
high and
legitimate ambition to
win the
battle of
life.
2.
... legitimate reason
for being there.
BB
Working With Others, p.101
So our
rule is not to
avoid a
place where there is
drinking, if we have a
legitimate reason for
being there.
3.
... legitimate satisfactions
of right living for which ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations squarely met,
troubles well accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in
the
world outside we are
partners in a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that
we are
no longer isolated and
alone in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of
things -- these are
the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right living for which
no amount of
pomp and
circumstance,
no heap of
material possessions,
could
possibly be
substitutes.
4.
... legitimate security
and a happy family life.
12&12
Step Four, p.44
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