From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... liberty foolishly
dangerous?
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
2.
... liberty for
the individual spells sheer anarchy.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
3.
... Liberty, printed
a piece in his magazine, ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
In the fall of 1939 Fulton Oursler, then editor of Liberty, printed a piece in his magazine, called "Alcoholics and God."
4.
... liberty to
handle this matter any way ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
They even had to coin a couple of sentences which
still go into half the letters they write: "Of course, you are at
perfect liberty to handle this matter any way you please.
5.
... liberty verging
on license, yet they recognize ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
They see liberty verging on license, yet they recognize at once that A.A. has an irresistible strength
of purpose and action.
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