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... man.
BB
Bill's Story, p.8
2.
... man.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
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
5.
... man's.
BB
How It Works, p.67
6.
... man.
BB
Into Action, p.80
He subsequently denied
having received the money
and used the incident as a
basis for discrediting
the man.
7.
... man.
BB
Working With Others, p.96
8.
... man.
BB
To Wives, p.111
9.
... man.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
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
12.
... man.
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
13.
... man.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
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
When our friend related his
experience, the man agreed that no amount of will power he might muster could stop his drinking for long.
20.
... man alone,
if possible.
BB
Working With Others, p.91
21.
... man, an
A.A. with the necessary experience.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.157
22.
... man an
injustice.
BB
To Employers, p.138
23.
... man and
God.
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
24.
... man and
God.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
25.
... man and
God the daily basis of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.
26.
... man and
his family, you should take ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
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
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
After reading this book, a junior executive can go to such a man and say approximately this, "Look here, Ed.
31.
... man and
watch his hope rise as ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
Many times we talk to a new man and watch his hope rise as we discuss his alcoholic problems and explain our fellowship.
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
Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three.
34.
... man at
last.
BB
Into Action, p.75
Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are
building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last.
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
Because of the employee's
special ability, or of his
own strong personal attachment to
him, the employer has sometimes kept such a man at work long beyond a reasonable period.
37.
... man away,
he'll soon die.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.142
38.
... man be
a real alcoholic, the happy ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
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
From a trembling, despairing, nervous wreck, had emerged a man brimming over with self-reliance and contentment.
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
If a sufficiently strong reason -- ill health, falling in love, change of environment, or
the warning of a doctor --
becomes operative, this
man can also stop or moderate, although he may find it difficult and troublesome and may even need medical attention.
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
This practice enables us
to lend a hand, at the same time avoiding certain alluring distractions
of the road, about which any traveling man can inform you.(*)
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
The Episcopal magazine,
The Living Church, observes editorially:
"The basis of the technique of Alcoholics
Anonymous is the truly Christian principle that
a man cannot help himself except by helping others.
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
51.
... man coming
in the door the break ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.169
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
54.
... man could
never fly?
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
55.
... man couldn't
do.
12&12
Step Two, p.29
56.
... man did
not fully realize what it ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
Painfully aware of being somehow abnormal, the man did not fully realize what it meant to be alcoholic.(*)
57.
... man did
slip and was fired.
BB
To Employers, p.139
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
61.
... man exert
himself there.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
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
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
They experienced a few distressing failures,
but in those cases they made an effort to bring the man's family into a spiritual way of living, thus relieving much worry and suffering.
66.
... man's family
is sure to be great.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
67.
... man's family
that he has been a ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
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
My downfall cost the business community unknown thousands of dollars, for it takes real money to train a man for an executive position.
71.
... man from
needless provocation and unfair criticism.
BB
To Employers, p.146
The employer cannot play favorites, but he can always
defend a man from needless provocation and
unfair criticism.
72.
... man from
temptation is doomed to failure.
BB
Working With Others, p.101
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes
to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure.
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
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
77.
... man has
gone along without drinking for ...
BB
To Employers, p.146
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic run-around -- provided, of course, they are
willing to have a third party in the picture.
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
An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.
80.
... man himself.
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and
miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
81.
... man in
everlasting ignorance -- that principle is ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof
against all arguments
and which cannot fail to keep a
man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
-- Herbert Spencer
82.
... man in
mind.
BB
To Employers, p.141
83.
... man in
our ranks, why wouldn't he ...
12&12
Tradition Six, p.157
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
86.
... man in
the street says, "I don't ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
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
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
91.
... man is
better, the doctor might suggest ...
BB
Working With Others, p.91
92.
... man is
done drinking.
BB
To Employers, p.138
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
95.
... man is
unthinking when he says that ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
96.
... man, it
is Fred.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
97.
... man's life
so as to shield him ...
BB
To Wives, p.120
98.
... man like
himself, a spiritual life which ...
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.
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
The immense resources now being harnessed promise such a quantity of material blessings that many have come to believe that a man-made millennium lies just ahead.
101.
... man's magnificent
attributes.
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
102.
... man may
be trusted.
BB
To Employers, p.146
Your man may be trusted.
103.
... man may
criticize or laugh at himself ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
A man may criticize or laugh at himself and it will affect others favorably, but criticism or ridicule coming from another often produces the contrary effect.
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
When thus out of joint, man's natural desires cause him great trouble, practically all
the trouble there is.
107.
... man needs
hospitalization, he should have it, ...
BB
Working With Others, p.91
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
To Christ I conceded the
certainty of a great man, not too closely followed by those who claimed Him.
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
My father was a professional man of recognized ability and both my father and mother were most active in church affairs.
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
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
In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found
in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle
for money, romance, or self-importance.
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
This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God,
sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to
meet the acid test: how well does it actually work?
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
Much of the everyday talk we hear, and a great deal of what we read, highlights man's pride in his own achievements.
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
126.
... man, religion
and that instinct for association ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist:
"This organization of Alcoholics Anonymous calls on two of the greatest reservoirs of power known to man, religion and that instinct for association
with one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'
127.
... man, risen
so majestically from a single ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
How he does cherish the thought that man, risen so majestically from
a single cell in the primordial ooze, is the spearhead of evolution
and therefore the only god
that his universe knows!
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
130.
... man should
be sure of his recovery.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
131.
... man should
be thoroughly probed on these ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
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
A man so involved often feels very remorseful at times, especially if he is
married to a loyal and courageous girl who has literally gone through hell for him.
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
136.
... man tends
to be impotent.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.134
Couples are occasionally dismayed
to find that when drinking
is stopped the man tends to be impotent.
137.
... man that
alcoholics of our type are ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
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
140.
... man, the
revelation was sudden.
BB
We Agnostics, p.57
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
143.
... man there,
I would be amazingly lifted ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
144.
... man, this
emerging from isolation through the ...
12&12
Step Five, p.62
This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
145.
... man thought
he had neatly evaded or ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
But his face falls when we speak of spiritual matters, especially when
we mention God, for we have re-opened a subject which our man thought he had neatly evaded or entirely ignored.
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
After satisfying yourself that your man wants to recover and that he will go to any
extreme to do so, you may suggest a definite course of action.
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
Sometimes the man we are calling upon admits his own fault, so feuds of years' standing melt away in an hour.
152.
... man we
hated will arise.
BB
Into Action, p.77
153.
... man we
know had remarried.
BB
Into Action, p.79
154.
... man, we
saw, could believe in God ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
155.
... man we
understood not at all.
12&12
Step Two, p.32
156.
... man which
is eminently fair and square.
BB
To Employers, p.148
157.
... man who
at fifty-five years found he ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
158.
... man who
can and will get well ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
159.
... man who
cannot or will not work ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
160.
... man who
drinks others are involved -- the ...
BB
To Wives, p.104
But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.
161.
... man who
first uttered the prayer.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
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
We know there are difficult
wives and families, but the
man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.
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
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.
168.
... man who
is placing business or professional ...
BB
The Family Afterward, pp.129-130
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think dad will be on a firmer foundation than the
man who is placing business or professional success ahead of spiritual development.
169.
... man who
is sincerely trying to grow ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
He goes on to explain that any person capable of enough willingness and honesty
to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults -- without any reservations whatever -- has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be
called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and likeness of his own Creator.
170.
... man who
is still sick.
BB
A Vision For You, p.164
171.
... man who
is unwilling to admit that ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
172.
... man who
lolls in the Florida sunshine ...
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.
173.
... man who
thought he was an atheist.
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
174.
... man who
took time to pass it ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
175.
... man, who
tries to run his life ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
The A.A., or indeed any man, who tries to run his life rigidly by this kind of prayer, by this self-serving demand of God for replies, is a particularly disconcerting individual.
176.
... man whose
experience closely tallied with his ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
Impressed by those who visited him at the hospital,
he capitulated entirely when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.
177.
... man will
fare better if placed in ...
BB
To Employers, p.143
Your man will fare better if placed in such physical condition that he
can think straight and no longer craves liquor.
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
An alcoholic who has recovered, but holds a relatively unimportant
job, can talk to a man with a better position.
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
Not long after the man with the double stigma knocked for admission, A.A.'s other group received into its membership a salesman we
shall call Ed.
182.
... man with
this book in your hand.
BB
A Vision For You, pp.162-163
183.
... man, woman,
and child, is the fundamental ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
Actually we were fooling
ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental
idea of God.
184.
... man would
be crazy, wouldn't he?
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.38
185.
... man, yet
dazed from his hospital experience, ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience, has
stepped over the threshold of that home into freedom.
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