From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... manage a
group, half its membership might ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Disliking the attempt
of some to manage a group, half its membership might angrily
rush off to form another group more to their liking.
2.
... manage and
conduct world service affairs.
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
VII. The Charter and Bylaws of the General Service Board are legal instruments, empowering the trustees
to manage and conduct world service affairs.
3.
... manage better
next time, but I might ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.
4.
... manage its
affairs exactly as it pleases, ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
But in relation to us, it means very simply that every A.A. group can manage its affairs exactly as it pleases, except when A.A. as a whole is threatened.
5.
... manage our
own lives.
BB p.60,
How It Works
6.
... manage with
the utmost assurance.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
My talent for leadership, I imagined,
would place me at the head of
vast enterprises which
I would manage with the utmost assurance.
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