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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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1.
... lest complete disclosures do them or others ...   12&12 p.83, Step Nine
There will be those to whom we can make only partial restitution, lest complete disclosures do them or others more harm than good.


2.
... lest I collapse and be run down ...   BB p.6, Bill's Story   Go to page 6 in the Big Book
I hardly dared cross the street, lest I collapse and be run down by an early morning truck, for it was scarcely daylight.


3.
... lest I suddenly leap.   BB p.6, Bill's Story   Go to page 6 in the Big Book
Somehow I managed to drag my mattress to a lower floor, lest I suddenly leap.

4.
... lest it prove his pet theory wrong.   12&12 p.97, Step Eleven
But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong.

5.
... lest problems of money, property, and prestige ...   12&12 p.155, Tradition Six
"An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose."


6.
... lest problems of money, property and prestige ...   BB p.562(564), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Six -- An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.


7.
... lest we pay the penalty by a ...   BB p.99, Working With Others   Go to page 99 in the Big Book
But we must try to repair the damage immediately lest we pay the penalty by a spree.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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