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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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1.
  ... membership a salesman we shall call Ed.  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.


2.
  ... membership; among newer members, the proportion is ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
Women now make up more than one-fourth of the membership; among newer members, the proportion is nearly one-third.


3.
  ... membership and a clear-cut idea of what ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.29
These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in their lives.


4.
  ... membership be publicized, thereby encouraging others to ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
Provided they were willing -- and many were -- why shouldn't their membership be publicized, thereby encouraging others to join us?


5.
  ... membership ever depend upon money or conformity.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity.


6.
  ... membership ever depend upon money or conformity.  12&12 Tradition Three (Long), p.189
Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity.


7.
  ... membership from a few into hundreds overnight.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
Cleveland's Plain Dealer articles about us ran that town's membership from a few into hundreds overnight.


8.
  ... membership had shot up to 2,000.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
By March 1941 the membership had shot up to 2,000.


9.
  ... membership had then reached about 100 men ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
The membership had then reached about 100 men and women.


10.
  ... membership has been led to us through ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.180
It is no exaggeration to say that half of A.A.'s membership has been led to us through channels like these.


11.
  ... membership in a religious body.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Though the family has no religious connections, they may wish to make contact with or take membership in a religious body.


12.
  ... membership in a year's time.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
The news stories of Mr. Rockefeller's dinner for Alcoholics Anonymous helped double our total membership in a year's time.


13.
  ... membership in one of the drinking societies, ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
On account of my enormous capacity for beer, I was elected to membership in one of the drinking societies, and soon became one of the leading spirits.


14.
  ... membership is a desire to stop drinking.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
Three -- The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.


15.
  ... membership is a desire to stop drinking."  12&12 Contents (Tradition Three), p.10
Tradition Three -- "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking."


16.
  ... membership is a desire to stop drinking."  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
"The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking."


17.
  ... membership is a desire to stop drinking."  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
He read aloud, "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking."


18.
  ... membership is a desire to stop drinking.  Grapevine Preamble
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.


19.
  ... membership is an honest desire to stop ...  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiv
The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking.


20.
  ... membership is far above 150,000 recovered alcoholics.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
In that brief space, Alcoholics Anonymous has mushroomed into nearly 6,000 groups whose membership is far above 150,000 recovered alcoholics.


21.
  ... membership is pyramiding at the rate of ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
At present, our membership is pyramiding at the rate of about twenty per cent a year.


22.
  ... membership, leadership, and money?  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
Would there be quarrels over membership, leadership, and money?


23.
  ... membership might angrily rush off to form ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Disliking the attempt of some to manage a group, half its membership might angrily rush off to form another group more to their liking.


24.
  ... membership, money, personal relations, public relations, management ...  12&12 Foreword, p.18
Everywhere there arose threatening questions of membership, money, personal relations, public relations, management of groups, clubs, and scores of other perplexities.


25.
  ... membership of A.A. has just about doubled, ...  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
Since the third edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.


26.
  ... membership of Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and ...  BB Preface, p.xii
All changes made over the years in the Big Book (A.A. members' fond nickname for this volume) have had the same purpose: to represent the current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and thereby to reach more alcoholics.


27.
  ... membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.


28.
  ... membership of over two million.  BB A Vision For You (Note), p.162
(*) Written in 1939. In 2016, there are over 117,748 groups. There is A.A. activity in approximately 180 countries, with an estimated membership of over two million.


29.
  ... membership of thousands of alcoholics such transformations, ...  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
Among our rapidly growing membership of thousands of alcoholics such transformations, though frequent, are by no means the rule.


30.
  ... membership ought to include all who suffer ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
3. Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism.


31.
  ... membership ought to include all who suffer ...  12&12 Tradition Three (Long), p.189
Three -- Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism.


32.
  ... membership passed the hundred thousand mark.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
Their membership passed the hundred thousand mark.


33.
  ... membership regulations?  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
Why did A.A. finally drop all its membership regulations?


34.
  ... membership regulations.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
As group after group saw these possibilities, they finally abandoned all membership regulations.


35.
  Membership regulations abandoned.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Three), p.10
Membership regulations abandoned.


36.
  ... membership rules.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
"At one time," he says, "every A.A. group had many membership rules.


37.
  ... membership rules?  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.172
Did anyone ever hear of a nation, a church, a political party, even a benevolent association that had no membership rules?


38.
  ... membership survey showed about eleven percent of ...  BB More About Alcoholism (Note), p.34
(*) True when this book was first published. But a 2014 U.S./Canada membership survey showed about eleven percent of A.A.'s were thirty and under.


39.
  ... membership that a new light had entered ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
By late 1937, the number of members having substantial sobriety time behind them was sufficient to convince the membership that a new light had entered the dark world of the alcoholic.


40.
  ... membership, that we must never compel anyone ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
Why did we dare to say, contrary to the experience of society and government everywhere, that we would neither punish nor deprive any A.A. of membership, that we must never compel anyone to pay anything, believe anything, or conform to anything?


41.
  ... membership took years of harrowing experience.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
To establish this principle of membership took years of harrowing experience.


42.
  ... membership was small, dealt with low-bottom cases ...  12&12 Step One, pp.22-23
That is why the first edition of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," published when our membership was small, dealt with low-bottom cases only.


43.
  ... membership; we are self-supporting through our own ...  Grapevine Preamble
There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions.


44.
  ... membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, ...  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
The stories added to this edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened to encompass virtually everyone the first 100 members could have hoped to reach.


45.
  ... membership, will give such inquirers an inside ...  12&12 Foreword, p.16
The second section of this volume, though designed for A.A.'s membership, will give such inquirers an inside view of A.A. never before possible.


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