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1.
... man.
BB
Bill's Story, p.8
2.
... man.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
But this
man still lives, and is a
free man.
3.
... man.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
Here was the
terrible dilemma in which our
friend found himself when he had the
extraordinary experience, which as we have
already told you,
made him a
free man.
4.
... man.
BB
How It Works, p.67
When a
person offended we
said to
ourselves, "This is
a
sick man.
5.
... man's.
BB
How It Works, p.67
The
inventory was
ours, not
the
other man's.
6.
... man.
BB
Into Action, p.80
7.
... man.
BB
Working With Others, p.96
Suppose now you are
making your
second visit to a
man.
8.
... man.
BB
To Wives, p.111
9.
... man.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
Overnight, as it were, he is a
different man.
10.
... man.
BB
To Employers, p.141
Had they
fired me
first, and
had they then
taken steps to
see that I was
presented
with the
solution contained in this
book, I
might have
returned to them
six months later, a
well man.
11.
... man.
BB
To Employers, p.147
If you are an
alcoholic, you are a
mighty sick man.
12.
... man.
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
That
afternoon he
put on his
clothes and
walked from the
hospital a
free man.
13.
... man.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
He
wants to be his
country's
number one man.
14.
... man.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.152
15.
... man a
chance.
BB
To Employers, p.148
We
think we are
sensible
when we
urge that you
stop this
waste and
give your
worthwhile man a
chance.
16.
... Man a
grim jest.
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
Judging from what I had
seen
in
Europe and since, the
power of
God in
human affairs was
negligible, the
Brotherhood of
Man a
grim jest.
17.
... man accepts
your offer, it should be ...
BB
To Employers, p.143
If your
man accepts your
offer, it should be
pointed out that
physical treatment is but a
small part of the
picture.
18.
... man afterward,
and stopped drinking abruptly.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
19.
... man agreed
that no amount of will ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
20.
... man alone,
if possible.
BB
Working With Others, p.91
See your
man alone, if
possible.
21.
... man, an
A.A. with the necessary experience.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.157
Soon they'd
spotted their
man, an
A.A. with the
necessary experience.
22.
... man an
injustice.
BB
To Employers, p.138
I
felt this was
inevitable
and
wondered if the
bank was
doing the
man an
injustice.
23.
... man and
God.
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
24.
... man and
God.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
It was the
beginning of
true kinship with
man and
God.
25.
... man and
God the daily basis of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
26.
... man and
his family, you should take ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
When
working with a
man and
his
family, you should
take care not to
participate in
their
quarrels.
27.
... man and
his wife placed their large ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
28.
... man and
in their own way they ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.134
In
time they
will see that he is a
new man and in their
own way they
will let him
know it.
29.
... man and
over one hundred others appear ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
30.
... man and
say approximately this, "Look here, ...
BB
To Employers, p.147
31.
... man and
watch his hope rise as ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
32.
... man and
woman came to A.A. because ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.186
33.
... man and
woman who has joined A.A. ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
34.
... man at
last.
BB
Into Action, p.75
35.
... man at
retirement, he went to pieces ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
36.
... man at
work long beyond a reasonable ...
BB
To Employers, p.137
37.
... man away,
he'll soon die.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.142
If we
turn this
man away, he'll
soon die.
38.
... man be
a real alcoholic, the happy ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
The
tragic truth is that if
the
man be a
real alcoholic, the
happy day may not
arrive.
39.
... man be
agnostic or atheist, make it ...
BB
Working With Others, p.93
If the
man be
agnostic or
atheist,
make it
emphatic that he does not have to
agree with your
conception
of
God.
40.
... man's brain
be cleared before he is ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
More often than not, it is
imperative that a
man's
brain be
cleared before he is
approached, as
he has then a
better chance
of
understanding and
accepting what we have to
offer.
41.
... man brimming
over with self-reliance and contentment.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
42.
... man, but
who had been cured by ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
But this was a
man who had
experienced many years of
frightful drinking, who had had most all the
drunkard's
experiences
known to
man, but who had been
cured by the
very means I had been
trying to
employ, that is to
say the
spiritual approach.
43.
... man by
name, and partly recognized his ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
44.
... man can
also stop or moderate, although ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
45.
... man can
build a house until he ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
46.
... man can
inform you.(*)
BB
A Vision For You, p.162
47.
... man can
say that he does believe, ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
As
soon as a
man can
say that he does
believe, or is
willing to
believe, we
emphatically assure him
that he is on his
way.
48.
... man cannot
help himself except by helping ...
BB
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
49.
... man's chance
of recovery.
BB
To Employers, p.145
50.
... man coming
in the door couldn't get ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
We
saw that if they
weren't,
the
man coming in the
door couldn't
get a
break.
51.
... man coming
in the door the break ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.169
She was
helping to
give the
man coming in the
door the
break he
ought to have.
52.
... man could
be so weak, stupid and ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
When
dealing with an
alcoholic, there may be a
natural annoyance that a
man could be so
weak,
stupid and
irresponsible.
53.
... man could
never fly?
BB
We Agnostics, p.51
Was it not
true that the
best mathematical minds had
proved man could
never fly?
54.
... man could
never fly?
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
What about
people who
proved
that
man could
never fly?
55.
... man couldn't
do.
12&12
Step Two, p.29
Scientific progress told us there was
nothing man couldn't do.
56.
... man did
not fully realize what it ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
57.
... man did
slip and was fired.
BB
To Employers, p.139
Presently the
man did
slip and was
fired.
58.
... man do
or say that was different ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
The
question which might
naturally come into your
mind would be: "what did the
man do
or
say that was
different
from what
others had
done or
said?"
59.
... man does
not want to stop, he ...
BB
To Employers, p.141
If you are
sure your
man does
not
want to
stop, he may as
well be
discharged, the
sooner the
better.
60.
... man drinks
so much that his job ...
BB
To Employers, p.148
If a
man drinks so
much that his
job suffers, we
fire him.
61.
... man exert
himself there.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
Since the
home has
suffered
more than
anything else, it is
well that a
man exert himself there.
62.
... man's experience
to think that they can ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
Young people may be
encouraged by this
man's
experience to
think that
they can
stop, as he did, on their
own will power.
63.
... man's face
as he replied, "Oh, but ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
Hopelessness was
written large on the
man's
face as he
replied, "
Oh, but that's
no use.
64.
... man familiar
with the subject.
12&12
Tradition Eight, pp.169-170
65.
... man's family
into a spiritual way of ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
66.
... man's family
is sure to be great.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
If
persisted in for a
few months, the
effect on a
man's
family is
sure to be
great.
67.
... man's family
that he has been a ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
But
urge upon a
man's
family that he has been a
very sick person and should be
treated
accordingly.
68.
... man's fault.
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
Those who did would
sometimes assure us that,
after all, a
lively bender was only a
good man's
fault.
69.
... man followed
the usual pattern, he would ...
BB
To Employers, p.138
The only
answer I could
make
was that if the
man followed
the
usual pattern, he would
go on a
bigger bust than
ever.
70.
... man for
an executive position.
BB
To Employers, p.137
71.
... man from
needless provocation and unfair criticism.
BB
To Employers, p.146
72.
... man from
temptation is doomed to failure.
BB
Working With Others, p.101
73.
... man had
ability, good sense, and high ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
74.
... man had
first crushed grapes.
12&12
Step One, p.22
And this had been
true,
apparently,
ever since
man had
first crushed grapes.
75.
... man has.
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
When
people presented us
with
spiritual approaches, how
frequently did we all
say, "I
wish I had what that
man has.
76.
... man has
a charming wife and family.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.35
This
man has a
charming wife and
family.
77.
... man has
gone along without drinking for ...
BB
To Employers, p.146
78.
... man has
probably been trying to conceal ...
BB
To Employers, p.140
79.
... man, he
remained bone dry for twenty-five ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
80.
... man himself.
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
81.
... man in
everlasting ignorance -- that principle is ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
82.
... man in
mind.
BB
To Employers, p.141
Perhaps you have
such a
man in
mind.
83.
... man in
our ranks, why wouldn't he ...
12&12
Tradition Six, p.157
If they could
find a
good public relations man in our
ranks,
why wouldn't he be
ideal?
84.
... man in
the bed was told of ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
The
man in the
bed was
told of the
acute poisoning from which he
suffered, how it
deteriorates the
body of an
alcoholic and
warps his
mind.
85.
... man in
the hospital and visit him ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
They were
willing, by
day or
night, to
place a
new man in the
hospital and
visit him
afterward.
86.
... man in
the street says, "I don't ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
The
man in the
street says, "I don't
understand it.
87.
... man instincts
to help him to stay ...
12&12
Step Six, p.64
He did not
design man to
destroy himself by
alcohol, but He did
give man instincts to
help him to
stay alive.
88.
... man into
your home for a few ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
Perhaps you
will want to
take the
man into your
home for a
few days.
89.
... man is
affected, the wife must become ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.118
90.
... man is
anxious to proceed at once, ...
BB
Working With Others, p.95
Sometimes a
new man is
anxious to
proceed at
once, and you may be
tempted to
let him do so.
91.
... man is
better, the doctor might suggest ...
BB
Working With Others, p.91
When your
man is
better, the
doctor might
suggest a
visit from you.
92.
... man is
done drinking.
BB
To Employers, p.138
But I'm
sure this
man is
done drinking.
93.
... man is
presented with this volume it ...
BB
To Employers, p.144
When the
man is
presented
with this
volume it is
best
that
no one tell him he
must abide by
its suggestions.
94.
... man is
sure to be impressed with ...
BB
Into Action, p.77
But our
man is
sure to be
impressed with a
sincere desire to
set right the
wrong.
95.
... man is
unthinking when he says that ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
We
feel a
man is
unthinking when he
says that
sobriety is
enough.
96.
... man, it
is Fred.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
If
ever there was a
successful business man, it is
Fred.
97.
... man's life
so as to shield him ...
BB
To Wives, p.120
We
never,
never try to
arrange a
man's
life so as to
shield him from
temptation.
98.
... man like
himself, a spiritual life which ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
99.
... man like
you has begun to solve ...
12&12
Step Two, p.27
100.
... man-made millennium
lies just ahead.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
101.
... man's magnificent
attributes.
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
102.
... man may
be trusted.
BB
To Employers, p.146
103.
... man may
criticize or laugh at himself ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
104.
... man must
decide for himself.
BB
To Employers, p.144
105.
... man must
walk day by day in ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
106.
... man's natural
desires cause him great trouble, ...
12&12
Step Four, p.42
107.
... man needs
hospitalization, he should have it, ...
BB
Working With Others, p.91
If your
man needs hospitalization, he should have it, but not
forcibly unless he is
violent.
108.
... man no
flavor for his fare and ...
BB
How It Works, p.69
One school would
allow man no
flavor for his
fare and the
other would have us all on a
straight pepper diet.
109.
... man, normal
so far as we can ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.35
110.
... man, not
too closely followed by those ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
111.
... man of
means, I knew that if ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pp.175-176
Not
being a
man of
means, I
knew that if I did not
stay sober enough to
earn money, I would
run out of
liquor.
112.
... man of
recognized ability and both my ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
113.
... man of
thirty was doing a great ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
114.
... man on
religious grounds?
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
115.
... man's opinion
based on his own experience, ...
12&12
Step Two, p.27
"This is only
one man's
opinion based on his
own experience, of
course.
116.
... man or
a woman has a spiritual ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
When a
man or a
woman has a
spiritual awakening, the
most
important meaning
of it is that he has
now become
able to do,
feel, and
believe that which he could not do
before on his
unaided strength and
resources alone.
117.
... man, or
even a first-rater in the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
118.
... man or
woman.
12&12
Step Two, p.29
119.
... man or
woman could be excluded from ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
It was
thought that
no alcoholic man or
woman could be
excluded from
our
Society; that our
leaders might
serve but
never govern; that
each group was to be
autonomous and there was to be
no professional class of
therapy.
120.
... man or
woman, for example, should be ...
12&12
Step Three, p.38
121.
... man plays
God, sounds good in the ...
12&12
Step Three, p.37
122.
... man prepares
us for following Steps.
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
123.
... man's pride
in his own achievements.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
124.
... man proceeds
to tell you shocking things?
BB
To Employers, p.145
125.
... man recounts
that he tumbled out of ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
This
man recounts that he
tumbled out of
bed to his
knees.
126.
... man, religion
and that instinct for association ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
127.
... man, risen
so majestically from a single ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
128.
... man should
be fired just because he ...
BB
To Employers, p.148
129.
... man should
be on his mettle to ...
BB
To Employers, p.146
Your
man should be on his
mettle to
make good.
130.
... man should
be sure of his recovery.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
The
man should be
sure of his
recovery.
131.
... man should
be thoroughly probed on these ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
We
believe a
man should be
thoroughly probed on these
points.
132.
... man sinking
into the mire that is ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
When we
see a
man sinking into the
mire that is
alcoholism, we
give him
first aid and
place what we have at his
disposal.
133.
... man so
involved often feels very remorseful ...
BB
Into Action, p.81
134.
... man so
obstinate.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.151
135.
... man still
lives, and is a free ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
But this
man still lives, and is a
free man.
136.
... man tends
to be impotent.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.134
137.
... man that
alcoholics of our type are ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
We are
convinced to a
man
that
alcoholics of our
type are in the
grip of a
progressive illness.
138.
... man that
he can get well regardless ...
BB
Working With Others, p.98
139.
... man, the
kind who recovers, will not ...
BB
To Employers, p.149
The
right kind of
man, the
kind who
recovers,
will not
want this
sort of
thing.
140.
... man, the
revelation was sudden.
BB
We Agnostics, p.57
To this
man, the
revelation was
sudden.
141.
... man, the
sort of chap we would ...
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.
142.
... man, "the
very image.
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
"
Yes, that's me,"
said the
sick man, "the
very image.
143.
... man there,
I would be amazingly lifted ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
On
talking to a
man there, I
would be
amazingly lifted
up and
set on my
feet.
144.
... man, this
emerging from isolation through the ...
12&12
Step Five, p.62
145.
... man thought
he had neatly evaded or ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
146.
... man through
his family.
BB
Working With Others, p.91
147.
... man to
destroy himself by alcohol, but ...
12&12
Step Six, p.64
He did not
design man to
destroy himself by
alcohol, but He did
give man instincts to
help him to
stay alive.
148.
... man, want
to know the necessities before ...
BB
To Employers, p.140
149.
... man wants
to recover and that he ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
150.
... man was
brought in to be treated ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
151.
... man we
are calling upon admits his ...
BB
Into Action, p.78
152.
... man we
hated will arise.
BB
Into Action, p.77
The
question of how to
approach the
man we
hated will arise.
153.
... man we
know had remarried.
BB
Into Action, p.79
A
man we
know had
remarried.
154.
... man, we
saw, could believe in God ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
No man, we
saw, could
believe in
God and
defy Him, too.
155.
... man we
understood not at all.
12&12
Step Two, p.32
The
love of
God and
man we
understood not at all.
156.
... man which
is eminently fair and square.
BB
To Employers, p.148
He
will be
able to
take a
position with
such a
man which is
eminently fair and
square.
157.
... man who
at fifty-five years found he ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
But
here is a
man who at
fifty-
five years found he was
just where he had
left off at
thirty.
158.
... man who
can and will get well ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
Either you are
dealing with
a
man who can and
will get well or you are not.
159.
... man who
cannot or will not work ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
We
find it a
waste of
time to
keep chasing a
man who cannot or
will not
work with you.
160.
... man who
drinks others are involved -- the ...
BB
To Wives, p.104
161.
... man who
first uttered the prayer.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
We'll
think now about the
man who
first uttered the
prayer.
162.
... man who
for several hundred years now ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
163.
... man who
had experienced many years of ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
But this was a
man who had
experienced many years of
frightful drinking, who had had most all the
drunkard's
experiences
known to
man, but who had been
cured by the
very means I had been
trying to
employ, that is to
say the
spiritual approach.
164.
... man who,
having a headache, beats himself ...
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.
165.
... man who
is getting over alcoholism must ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
166.
... man who
is making the approach has ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
That the
man who is
making the
approach has had the
same difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole
deportment shouts at the
new prospect that he is a
man with a
real answer, that he has
no attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that there are
no fees to
pay,
no
axes to
grind,
no people to
please,
no lectures to be
endured --
these are the
conditions we have
found most
effective.
167.
... man who
is off on a spiritual ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
168.
... man who
is placing business or professional ...
BB
The Family Afterward, pp.129-130
169.
... man who
is sincerely trying to grow ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
170.
... man who
is still sick.
BB
A Vision For You, p.164
Ask Him in your
morning meditation what you can do
each day for the
man who is
still sick.
171.
... man who
is unwilling to admit that ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
There is the
type of
man who is
unwilling to
admit that he
cannot
take a
drink.
172.
... man who
lolls in the Florida sunshine ...
BB
How It Works, p.61
173.
... man who
thought he was an atheist.
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
In this
book you
will read the
experience of a
man who
thought he was an
atheist.
174.
... man who
took time to pass it ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
3.
Because in so
doing I am
paying my
debt to the
man who
took time to
pass it on to me.
175.
... man, who
tries to run his life ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
176.
... man whose
experience closely tallied with his ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
177.
... man will
fare better if placed in ...
BB
To Employers, p.143
178.
... man will
take, as a rule, one ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
179.
... man with
a better position.
BB
To Employers, p.146
180.
... man with
a real answer, that he ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
That the
man who is
making the
approach has had the
same difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole
deportment shouts at the
new prospect that he is a
man with a
real answer, that he has
no attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that there are
no fees to
pay,
no
axes to
grind,
no people to
please,
no lectures to be
endured --
these are the
conditions we have
found most
effective.
181.
... man with
the double stigma knocked for ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
182.
... man with
this book in your hand.
BB
A Vision For You, pp.162-163
And so can you,
though you be but
one man with this
book in your
hand.
183.
... man, woman,
and child, is the fundamental ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
184.
... man would
be crazy, wouldn't he?
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.38
Such a
man would be
crazy, wouldn't he?
185.
... man, yet
dazed from his hospital experience, ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
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