From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... line.
BB p.149,
To Employers
Even if you feel your organization has no alcoholic problem, it
might pay to take another look down the line.
2.
... line all
we wish.
BB p.85,
Into Action
3.
... line is
the shortest distance between two ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not prove life in
the sense that you can prove
a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.
4.
... line of
business.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
He trembled as he went
about, for this might mean ruin, particularly to a
person in his line of business.
5.
... line of
cleavage could be seen between ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
At last, however, a plain
line of cleavage could be
seen between professionalism and nonprofessionalism.
6.
... line of
life with these motives and ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
7.
... line of
our parts.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
It was as if we were actors on a stage, suddenly realizing that we did not know a single line of our parts.
8.
... line, see
the tragedies, the despairing wives, ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear
somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
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