From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... makes a
regular report at business meetings.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
Their treasurer, strictly accountable,
takes money from the hat that is passed, banks it, pays the rent and other bills, and makes a regular report at business meetings.
2.
... makes a
sole vocation of this work, ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
None of us makes a sole vocation of this work, nor do we think its effectiveness would be increased if we did.
3.
... makes an
accurate and unsparing survey of ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing
survey of the human wreckage he has left in his
wake.
4.
... makes an
impossible list for Santa Claus.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
Sometimes it's because
God has not delivered us
the good things of life which we specified, as
a greedy child makes an impossible list for Santa Claus.
5.
... makes for
discord and unhappiness.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
6.
... makes for
more drinking.
BB p.73,
Into Action
7.
... makes friends
with everyone.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
8.
... makes good
sense.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
9.
... makes it
possible for us to receive ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
It is a step in the development of that kind
of humility that makes it
possible for us to receive God's help.
10.
... makes it
virtually impossible for him to ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We are equally positive
that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system,
something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.
11.
... makes life
seem so worth while to ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.
12.
... makes not
the slightest difference with the ...
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
True, some of the projects
to which A.A.'s have attached themselves
have been ill-conceived,
but that makes not the slightest difference
with the principle involved.
13.
... makes sense.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
14.
... makes sense
in the light of the ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none of
them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates.
15.
... makes sense
to him.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
16.
... makes that
possible.
BB p.62,
How It Works
17.
... makes the
difference between failure and success.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
18.
... makes the
impasse worse.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
19.
... makes us
feel superior to other people.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Let us reemphasize that
this reluctance to fight one another or anybody else is not counted as some special virtue which makes us feel superior to other people.
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