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1.
... like.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.37
2.
... like.
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
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
6.
... like a
boy whistling in the dark ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
We
know our
friend is
like a
boy whistling in the
dark to
keep up his
spirits.
7.
... like a
central government can anywhere be ...
12&12
Foreword, p.16
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
"
Why don't you
drink like a
gentleman or
quit?"
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
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
17.
... like a
purposeless and pointless piece of ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.77
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
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
28.
... like an
avalanche.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.133
29.
... like an
opportunity to be helpful, so ...
BB
To Employers, p.138
30.
... like Einstein's
theory of relativity or a ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
31.
... like everybody
else, we were afflicted with ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
32.
... like flickering
candles in a windstorm.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.139
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
This
world is
full of
people like him.
36.
... like him,
and have found the riddle's ...
12&12
Step Two, p.32
There are too
many of us who have been
just like him, and have
found the
riddle's
answer.
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
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
44.
... like it.
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
45.
... like it.
BB
To Wives, p.106
The
unexpected result
was that our
husbands seemed to
like it.
46.
... like it.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.156
47.
... like it
understood that our alcoholic work ...
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
We would
like it
understood that our
alcoholic work is an
avocation.
48.
... like men
who have lost their legs; ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
We are
like men who have
lost their
legs; they
never grow new ones.
49.
... like most
everybody does when afraid.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.140
Naturally, we
began to
act like most
everybody does when
afraid.
50.
Like most
people, we have found that ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
Like most
people, we have
found that we can
take our
big lumps as they
come.
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
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
59.
... like other
men.
BB
More About Alcoholism, pp.30-31
60.
... like other
men have begotten all sorts ...
BB
To Wives, p.105
61.
... like other
people.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
62.
... like other
people.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
63.
... like other
people!
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
64.
... like other
people.
BB
To Wives, p.109
He is
worried at
times, and
is
becoming aware that he
cannot
drink like other people.
65.
... like other
people, but does not see ...
BB
To Wives, p.110
He
admits he cannot
drink
like other people, but does not
see why.
66.
... like other
people, or presently may be, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
The
delusion that we are
like other people, or
presently may be,
has to be
smashed.
67.
... like others,
we often discover a greater ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
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
Like our
professional friends, we, too, are
aware
that there are
wrong forms of
dependence.
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
We
enjoy moments in which
there is
something like real peace of
mind.
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
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
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
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
Over and
over, he would
say: "That's me. That's me. I
drink
like that."
90.
... like that,
A.A. had a very special ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
For
those of us who were
like
that,
A.A. had a
very special meaning.
91.
... like that
day the boiler burst in ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.149
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
94.
... like the
alcoholic's first drink it would, ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.164
95.
... like the
devil and thank you to ...
BB
To Employers, p.149
He
will work like the
devil and
thank you to his
dying day.
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
98.
... like the
farmer who came up out ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
He is
like the
farmer who
came up out of
his
cyclone cellar to
find his
home ruined.
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
I'll
look like the
hole in the
doughnut."
102.
... like the
idea.
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
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
106.
... like the
opening of a door which ...
12&12
Step Three, p.34
107.
... like the
passengers of a great liner ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.17
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
111.
... like the
Society it serves, it will ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
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
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
117.
... like these,
more of which will come ...
12&12
Step Four, p.52
118.
... like this?
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
Why does he
behave like this?
119.
... like this.
BB
To Wives, p.110
You can be
quite hopeful of
a
situation like this.
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
Well, we might
start like this.
123.
... like this:
12&12
Step Eleven, pp.100-101
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
They
said firmly, "You can't
talk like this
around here. You'll have to
quit it or
get out."
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
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
131.
... like those
who had insisted the Wrights ...
BB
We Agnostics, pp.52-53
132.
... like to?
BB
To Wives, p.112
133.
... like to
be assured that the grace ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
We would
like to be
assured
that the
grace of
God can do for
us what we cannot do for
ourselves.
134.
... like to
be helpful to such cases.
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiv
We should
like to be
helpful
to
such cases.
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
I was
soon to be
catapulted into what I
like
to
call the
fourth dimension of
existence.
137.
... like to
feel just a little superior ...
12&12
Step Six, p.66
138.
... like to
get over drinking for good.
BB
To Wives, p.112
But
after his
next binge,
ask him if he would
really like to
get over drinking for
good.
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
Isn't it
true that we
like to
let greed masquerade as
ambition?
142.
... like to
live at peace with himself ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
Each of us would
like to
live at
peace with
himself and with his
fellows.
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
146.
... like us,
are suffering from the pains ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
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
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
People like you are too
heartbreaking.
153.
... like you
-- far too smart for our ...
12&12
Step Two, p.29
To these,
many A.A.'s can
say, "
Yes, we were
like you --
far too
smart for our
own good.
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
As
wives of
Alcoholics Anonymous, we would
like you
to
feel that we
understand
as
perhaps few can.
156.
... like yours.
12&12
Step Two, p.27
When I
first looked at
A.A. my
reaction was
just like yours.
157.
... like yourself,
he is just beginning his ...
BB
To Wives, p.118
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