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... like.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.37
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
2.
... like.
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion -- anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.
3.
... like.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
This much could be a fragment of what is called meditation, perhaps our very first attempt at a mood, a flier into the realm of spirit, if you like.
4.
... like a
bad boy.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
5.
... like a
boomerang and all but cut ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.2
Out of this alloy of drink and speculation, I commenced to forge the weapon that one day would turn in its flight like a boomerang and all but cut me to ribbons.
6.
... like a
boy whistling in the dark ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
7.
... like a
central government can anywhere be ...
12&12
Foreword, p.16
Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member
can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere
be seen?
8.
Like a
gaunt prospector, belt drawn in ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
9.
... like a
gentleman or quit?"
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
10.
... like a
gentleman, our hats are off ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
If anyone who is showing inability to control his drinking can do the right-about-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off to
him.
11.
... like a
good thing.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.158
12.
... like a
hard question, but practically speaking, ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
13.
... like, a
Higher Power -- into our lives.
12&12
Step Three, p.34
Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it
is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power -- into our lives.
14.
... like a
mere means of getting money ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.121
When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity
for service, when the acquisition of money for financial independence
looked more important than a right dependence upon God, we were still the victims of unreasonable
fears.
15.
... like a
partner instead of like a ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
16.
... like a
pig, and was uncomfortable from ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pp.177-178
I put on thirty pounds of weight in about two months, looked like a pig, and was uncomfortable
from shortness of breath.
17.
... like a
purposeless and pointless piece of ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.77
This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery.
18.
... like a
ski-jump.
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
19.
... like a
thunderbolt, a great thought came.
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
20.
... like a
tornado roaring his way through ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
21.
... like a
very big coin.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.163
22.
... like a
very dubious and improbable state ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
23.
... like a
year.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
24.
... like alcoholics,
so we thought we'd build ...
12&12
Tradition Six, p.155
25.
... like all
other societies, we do have ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
But just like all other societies, we do have
sex and marital problems, and sometimes
they are distressingly acute.
26.
Like all
the remaining Steps, Step Three ...
12&12
Step Three, p.34
Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it
is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power -- into our lives.
27.
... like an
actor who wants to run ...
BB
How It Works, p.60
Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in his own way.
28.
... like an
avalanche.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.133
29.
... like an
opportunity to be helpful, so ...
BB
To Employers, p.138
This seemed to me like an opportunity to be helpful, so I spent two hours talking about alcoholism,
the malady, and described
the symptoms and results
as well as I could.
30.
... like Einstein's
theory of relativity or a ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
Maybe this all sounds mysterious and remote, something like Einstein's theory of relativity or a proposition in nuclear physics.
31.
... like everybody
else, we were afflicted with ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with
pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above selfishness or dishonesty.
32.
... like flickering
candles in a windstorm.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.139
Hardly an alcoholic we approached paid any attention; most of those who did join us were like flickering candles in a windstorm.
33.
... like half
of us thought we were ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.44
34.
... like him.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
35.
... like him.
BB
To Wives, p.109
36.
... like him,
and have found the riddle's ...
12&12
Step Two, p.32
37.
... like him
to approach you if the ...
BB
Working With Others, p.90
You need this information
to put yourself in his place, to see how you would like him to approach you if the tables were turned.
38.
... like him
to be.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.126
If not irritable, he may seem dull and boring, not gay and affectionate as the family would like him to be.
39.
... like him
who "view with alarm for ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
He and all like him who "view
with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or,
worse still, laughter.
40.
... like himself,
a spiritual life which does ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
He will perceive that his spiritual growth is lopsided, that for an average man like himself, a spiritual life which does not
include his family obligations may not be so perfect after all.
41.
... like himself,
have recovered.
BB
To Wives, p.113
42.
... like, in
any case, to be friendly.
BB
Working With Others, p.95
But point out that we alcoholics have much in common and that you would like,
in any case, to be friendly.
43.
... like infants
ourselves, that people protect and ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
When we had taken the opposite tack and had insisted, like infants ourselves, that people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result had
been equally unfortunate.
44.
... like it.
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
We still like it.
45.
... like it.
BB
To Wives, p.106
46.
... like it.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.156
We'd form groups of depressive and paranoid
folks; the deeper the neurosis, the better we'd
like it.
47.
... like it
understood that our alcoholic work ...
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
48.
... like men
who have lost their legs; ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
49.
... like most
everybody does when afraid.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.140
50.
Like most
people, we have found that ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
51.
Like myself,
he had admitted complete defeat.
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
52.
... like Napoleon
returning from Elba.
BB
Bill's Story, p.4
53.
... like now.
BB
How It Works, p.58
Our stories disclose in a
general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like
now.
54.
... like number
two he became worse.
BB
To Wives, p.109
55.
... like one.
BB
To Employers, p.147
56.
... like one
prodigious squabble than anything else, ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
Before we leveled off a bit, A.A. looked more like one prodigious squabble than
anything else, at least on the surface.
57.
... like opening
of a locked door.
12&12
Contents (Step Three), p.5
58.
... like other
men.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do for
months or years, he reacts much like other men.
59.
... like other
men.
BB
More About Alcoholism, pp.30-31
Neither does there appear
to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men.
60.
... like other
men have begotten all sorts ...
BB
To Wives, p.105
Our loyalty and the desire
that our husbands hold up their heads and be like other men
have begotten all sorts of
predicaments.
61.
... like other
people.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
If these thoughts occur,
they are hazy and readily supplanted with the old threadbare idea that this time we shall handle ourselves like other people.
62.
... like other
people.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been
characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people.
63.
... like other
people!
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
64.
... like other
people.
BB
To Wives, p.109
65.
... like other
people, but does not see ...
BB
To Wives, p.110
66.
... like other
people, or presently may be, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
67.
... like others,
we often discover a greater ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in the lesser and
more continuous problems of life.
68.
... like our
husbands to be.
BB
To Wives, p.118
We women carry with us a picture of the ideal man, the sort of chap we would like our husbands to be.
69.
... like our
own.
12&12
Step Five, p.61
70.
Like our
professional friends, we, too, are ...
12&12
Step Three, p.38
71.
... like ourselves,
were sick too.
BB
How It Works, p.67
Though we did not like their
symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too.
72.
... like parties
which would be dull without ...
BB
To Wives, p.110
73.
... like people
in a sinking ship.
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
74.
... like perfect
adherence to these principles.
BB
How It Works, p.60
75.
... like real
peace of mind.
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
76.
... like restraint
of tongue and pen.
12&12
Step Ten, p.91
77.
... like snow
in June.
BB
To Wives, p.106
78.
... like snow
in springtime.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.164
79.
... like so
much, and then asked me ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.42
They grinned, which I didn't like so much, and then asked me if I thought myself alcoholic and if I
were really licked this time.
80.
Like so
much of A.A.'s basic text, ...
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
Like so much of A.A.'s basic text, those words have proved to be far more visionary than the founding members could ever have imagined.
81.
... like some
of them.
BB
To Wives, p.119
You may not like some of them.
82.
... like some
righteous people I see?
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
But am I to be consigned to a life where I shall be stupid, boring and glum, like some righteous people I see?
83.
... like tardiness.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
We have seen A.A.'s ask with much earnestness and faith for
God's explicit guidance on matters ranging all the way from a shattering domestic or financial crisis to correcting a minor personal fault, like tardiness.
84.
... like tempting
Providence, but it isn't.
BB
Working With Others, p.101
To a person who has had experience with an alcoholic, this may seem like tempting Providence, but it isn't.
85.
... like that.
BB
Bill's Story, p.9
Drinkers are like that.
86.
... like that.
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
With us it is just like that.
87.
... like that?
BB
Into Action, p.81
In fairness we must say that she may understand,
but what are we going to do about a thing like that?
88.
... like that.
BB
To Wives, p.113
89.
... like that."
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
90.
... like that,
A.A. had a very special ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
91.
... like that
day the boiler burst in ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.149
Then came the inevitable
explosion -- something
like that day the boiler burst in Wombley's Clapboard Factory.
92.
... like that";
or, most important, "Yes, I ...
BB
Preface, p.xii
If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me"; or,
more important, "Yes, I've felt like that"; or, most important,
"Yes, I believe this program can work for me too."
93.
... like that,
too; it helps to envision ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
Well, meditation is like that, too; it helps to envision our spiritual objective before we try to move toward it.
94.
... like the
alcoholic's first drink it would, ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.164
Compared to this prospect, the ten thousand dollars under consideration
wasn't much, but like the alcoholic's first drink it would, if taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain reaction.
95.
... like the
devil and thank you to ...
BB
To Employers, p.149
96.
... like the
effect produced by alcohol.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
97.
... like the
experience of an occasional retreat ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
Many of us also like the experience of an occasional retreat from
the outside world where we
can quiet down for an undisturbed day or so of self-overhaul and meditation.
98.
... like the
farmer who came up out ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
99.
... like the
following take on a world ...
12&12
Step Four, p.43
100.
... like the
Greenland Ice Cap, and even ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
His only chance for sobriety would be some place
like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!
101.
... like the
hole in the doughnut."
12&12
Step Three, p.36
102.
... like the
idea.
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
I didn't like the idea.
103.
... like the
idea that God has accomplished ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
While grateful that he drinks no more, they may not like the idea that God has accomplished the miracle
where they failed.
104.
... like the
individual, must eventually conform to ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Four), p.10
105.
... like the
individual, must eventually conform to ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.146
We saw that the group, exactly like the individual, must eventually conform to whatever tested principles would guarantee survival.
106.
... like the
opening of a door which ...
12&12
Step Three, p.34
Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all
appearances is still closed and locked.
107.
... like the
passengers of a great liner ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.17
We are like the passengers
of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when
camaraderie, joyousness and democracy
pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table.
108.
... like the
philosophy of the man who, ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
They sound like the philosophy of the man who,
having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he can't feel the
ache.
109.
... like the
plague.
BB
Working With Others, p.98
110.
... like the
retired business man who lolls ...
BB
How It Works, p.61
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest of
the world would only behave;
the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and
the alcoholic who has lost
all and is locked up.
111.
... like the
Society it serves, it will ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority
over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion,
vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial
unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that
it never perform acts of government, and that,
like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and
action.
112.
... like the
thought that the contents of ...
BB
To Wives, p.118
We do not like the thought
that the contents of a book
or the work of another alcoholic has accomplished in a few weeks that for which we struggled for years.
113.
... like their
symptoms and the way these ...
BB
How It Works, p.67
Though we did not like their
symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too.
114.
... like their
true purpose and direction.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
But today, in well-matured A.A.'s, these distorted drives have been
restored to something
like their true purpose and direction.
115.
... like these.
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.180
It is no exaggeration to
say that half of A.A.'s membership has been led to us through channels like these.
116.
... like these:
In addition to my drinking ...
12&12
Step Four, p.51
Surveying his business
or employment record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my drinking problem, what character defects contributed to my
financial instability?
117.
... like these,
more of which will come ...
12&12
Step Four, p.52
Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes.
118.
... like this?
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
119.
... like this.
BB
To Wives, p.110
120.
... like this:
BB
To Employers, p.141
121.
... like this:
12&12
Step Six, p.63
122.
... like this.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
123.
... like this:
12&12
Step Eleven, pp.100-101
When, by such simple devices, we have placed ourselves in a mood in which
we can focus undisturbed
on constructive imagination, we might proceed like this:
124.
... like this
are heard daily.
12&12
Step Six, p.64
125.
... like this
around here. You'll have to ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
126.
... like this!
I have everything to live ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: "Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to
live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!"
127.
... like this:
Looking at both past and ...
12&12
Step Four, p.52
Questioning directed
to this end might run like this: Looking at both past and present, what sex situations have caused me
anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?
128.
... like this:
"My Creator, I am now ...
BB
Into Action, p.76
When ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.
129.
... like this
one.
12&12
Step One, p.21
130.
... like this
one?
12&12
Tradition Six, p.158
Straightway he appeared at New York's A.A. headquarters, asking, "Is
there anything in our tradition that suggests I
shouldn't take a job like this one?
131.
... like those
who had insisted the Wrights ...
BB
We Agnostics, pp.52-53
When others showed us that
"God-sufficiency" worked with them, we began to feel like those who had insisted the Wrights would never fly.
132.
... like to?
BB
To Wives, p.112
Just would he like to?
133.
... like to
be assured that the grace ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
134.
... like to
be helpful to such cases.
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiv
135.
... like to
call it nowadays.
BB
How It Works, p.61
136.
... like to
call the fourth dimension of ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.8
137.
... like to
feel just a little superior ...
12&12
Step Six, p.66
Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior?
138.
... like to
get over drinking for good.
BB
To Wives, p.112
139.
... like to
help other drinkers.
BB
To Wives, p.112
140.
... like to
keep him, but cannot if ...
BB
To Employers, p.141
You might say you appreciate his abilities, would like to keep him, but cannot if he continues to drink.
141.
... like to
let greed masquerade as ambition?
12&12
Step Six, p.66
142.
... like to
live at peace with himself ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
143.
... like to
lose our support.
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
Perhaps we had been leaning too heavily on Reason that last mile and we did not like to lose our support.
144.
... like to
pronounce any individual as alcoholic, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
145.
... like to
strive for whether our instinctual ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in itself, something we would
like to strive for whether our instinctual
needs were met or not.
146.
... like us,
are suffering from the pains ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from the
pains of growing up.
147.
... like us,
go through the emotional wringer.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
We won't be biased or scared
off by that fact, because although he was not an alcoholic he did, like us, go through the emotional wringer.
148.
... like us
is the one aim that ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.151
This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A.A.'s all around the globe.
149.
Like us,
they had suddenly found themselves ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.131
Like us, they had suddenly
found themselves saved from death, but still floating upon a perilous sea.
150.
... like us
to keep our heads in ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
We have come to believe He
would like us to keep our heads in the clouds with Him,
but that our feet ought to be
firmly planted on earth.
151.
... like, what
happened, and what we are ...
BB
How It Works, p.58
Our stories disclose in a
general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like
now.
152.
... like you
are too heartbreaking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
153.
... like you
-- far too smart for our ...
12&12
Step Two, p.29
154.
... like you
has begun to solve the ...
12&12
Step Two, p.27
155.
... like you
to feel that we understand ...
BB
To Wives, p.104
156.
... like yours.
12&12
Step Two, p.27
157.
... like yourself,
he is just beginning his ...
BB
To Wives, p.118
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